Electronic conversion kit also unveiled at Taipei show

By Warren Rossiter

Published: Monday, 11 March 2024 at 12:00 PM


Chinese groupset brand L-Twoo has been attracting attention over the past few years as an affordable upstart making some noise against a backdrop of ever-increasing drivetrain prices.

We were at the Taipei Cycle Show last week – one of the cycling industry’s most important trade shows – and spotted not one but two new gravel groupsets to sit alongside L-Twoo’s mechanical and electronic groupsets for the road.

L-Twoo debuted eGR – an electronic gravel groupset – and GRT – a mechanical gravel groupset.

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The new eGR components are designed as a 1×12-speed system consisting of:

Battery from the L-Twoo eGR electronic gravel groupset
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Details on the new electronic groupset were thin on the ground in Taipei, but we’ve secured a test sample, which should arrive soon.

The GRT group is also 1×12-speed and the rear derailleur is equipped with a bounce-controlling clutch. 

The mechanical shifting, however, is all contained on the right-hand lever. 

Shifters from the L-Twoo GRT mechanical gravel groupset
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It features a shift trigger behind the brake lever and a Campagnolo Ekar-style shift trigger on the inner face of the hood. 

Rear derailleur from the L-Twoo GRT mechanical gravel groupset
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The rear derailleur and shifters are complemented by a set of compact hydraulic disc calipers with flat-mount fittings.

Pricing isn’t yet confirmed, but L-Twoo expects the eGT components to come in under $600 for the shifters, battery, cabling, brakes and derailleur.

Flat-mount brake from the L-Twoo GRT mechanical gravel groupset
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The mechanical GRT component package should be significantly less expensive. 

Can L-Twoo become a viable – and value-focused – alternative to Shimano, SRAM, Campagnolo and, more recently, Microshift (with the new Microshift Sword groupset) in the gravel market?

L-Twoo electronic conversion kit
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Aside from the two new gravel groupsets, L-Twoo also showed off a new wireless electronic converter for existing groups. 

The idea here is that you mount the wireless cable push/pull system to your chainstay and use the wireless roller trigger mounted on the bars. This activates your mechanical rear derailleur in the usual way but with just a few inches of cable and a wireless-activated motor.

Pricing isn’t yet available for this converter kit, but again we’re getting hold of a unit to try out.