I had to remove my reflective side stripes to
get back the road. I however still wanted some colour - I looked into getting some matching non reflective patterned strip made (I did look but the cost was way too much), so I found this to be an acceptable workaround:

Yellow electrical insulating tape!
Purists may bork, and close up it may not be perfect, but from a few meters it looks great, and is certainly better than none at all :-)
Pat