Odlo Performance Light base layer review

A comfortable summer base layer from a top outdoor apparel brand, with the versatility to cope with a variety of conditions

Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Odlo Performance Light base layer is a good all-rounder, adding comfort in cooler conditions as well as being able to cope with the few and far between hot days riders in the UK are likely to experience.

Reasons to buy
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    Good weight for UK summer conditions

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    Differential thickness in different zones

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    Good fit

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    Comfortable

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Reasons to avoid
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    Not as light as some of the sleeveless competition

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Founded by a Norwegian and based in Switzerland, Odlo is a brand that should know about cold weather insulation. But it also produces lighter weight pieces like the Odlo Performance Light base layer to cope with the hot summer weather in the Alps.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.