I reckon there's quite some advantage to Steve riding the roads he knows well and sleeping in his own bed a lot of the time. Without wishing to be a prophet of doom, it would be a remarkable achievement if this year were to sail through without some unforeseen snag - it's a testament to Steve's planning of the cycling side, and the support team's hard work, that it's going so well - and it will be vastly simpler to sort something out and get him back on the road when pretty much everything he needs is "on the peg" in Milton Keynes.
FWIW, that would be the way I see it too.
Steve's his own man - as evidenced by the fact that he's the one actually riding the bike.
As long as he feels confident and comfortable enough to turn round to the team and say, "hey, this needs to change, like right now", then what is there to be done that's different? It would be sad to think that he might ever be suffering in silence, feeling that he can't ask for changes to be made, now it's all set up, but I'd be amazed if that were to ever happen.
I don't know how he does it, I really don't. Get me to Florida or South of France any day, but I really wonder if Steve is really that bothered about the cold. It would appear that what bugs him the most is the amount of time it takes to get dressed, rather than being out in it. And the roads? Heavens above, he's riding some busy old roads, day in day out.
For us, what would appear to be the hard way [putting it mildy] is for Steve, well....just the normal way it's done.