More colors in wetsuits?
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Triguy98 posted 2 years ago.
The problem comes in the coloring of the neoprene. In my experience colored neoprene tends to wear and become more brittle eariler than the rest of the suit. It would be nice, but its an expensive and not necessary. Even dive suits often have very minimal coloration to them.
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christri25 posted 2 years ago.
the problem with the QR silver wetsuit is that you end up looking like a piece of " bait fish " LOL ... Baracuda and other predator fish are attracted to shiny objects.
Chris
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kylie posted 2 years ago.
Wooo! My wetsuit is the QR one with silver arms and legs and a blue bodypart. I'm a fish! Now if I could just swim like one...
But I know what you mean. To tell that my friend had not in fact found me in the swim crowd (she thought she'd seen my number on a cap) I could only tell it wasn't me because there were no arms to the suit of the swimmer.
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Blitz posted 2 years ago.
Wetsuit technology has taken off. The Material is changing improving, now there is a wetsuit that works like fish scales and lifts you in the water and you should be able to glide easier. What they will think of next!
Who needs a man when you have a Kuota Kalibur to wrap your legs around.
Wouldn't it be cool if tri wetsuits became more colorful?
I know Quintana Roo has some cool silver patches and other brands are incorporating more color accents - but what if we started getting some cool hot colors like you'd see on bike jerseys? I'm thinking that it would help with safety as well.
My gf was saying that it was hard to tell me apart among the sea of other triathletes because we all wore the same thing. Swim cap, goggles, black wetsuits. I tried sticking a piece of yellow tape over my dark swimcap but it was too small to see from shore. It would be cool if it was possible to customize something on your suit without compromising its performance/longevity.
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