BIKELAB STUDIO
Bicycle Engineering Laboratory · Trujillo, Peru

BikeLab Studio was born out of exasperation.

The mechanic in sandals with a wide smile and an empty diagnosis. The "all done, boss" said without a torque wrench. The "that's just how it works" as a technical answer. Shoddy work institutionalized as the local industry standard. Years of watching a precisely engineered bicycle enter a bike shop in Trujillo and leave just as broken — but with oil on it.

In Trujillo — and in most cities across Latin America — the bike workshop runs on inherited intuition, not technical criteria. Nobody measures. Nobody verifies. Nobody explains what failed or why. They charge you, smile at you, and hand back the bicycle with the original problem renamed as a solution.

BikeLab Studio exists because that model is unacceptable for a cyclist who knows what they have between their hands.

We're asked if we're going to organize cycling races in Trujillo. No. Not the way they're run here — without technical criteria, exploiting amateur enthusiasm to fill an entry form. If we ever execute something, it will be perfect, validated solely by us, or it will not exist.

We're asked why we don't post photos of our clients. Because the priority is the mechanics. The truth is in the established micron, not in content for social media.

We're asked if we partner with local groups, shops, or brands. No. BikeLab Studio is an independent technical entity. Not a bike shop that survives on likability, nor a store that depends on belonging to something to have meaning.

The music playing at BikeLab Studio is curated. The photographs are curated. The color palette was not chosen by trend. The equations we publish — and which we know few understand — are there because they are true, not because they generate engagement. Nothing in this space is done by guesswork. That same precision is what we apply to every bicycle that enters the laboratory.

Here the work is technical or it doesn't happen. Every intervention in bicycle maintenance, MTB suspension adjustment, hydraulic brake diagnosis, or drivetrain analysis has documented criteria, specified torque, and prior diagnosis. We don't offer good vibes. We offer precision.

We are not everyone's workshop. We are the workshop for those who have had enough of the others.

BikeLab Studio. Trujillo, Peru. Founded May 2025.

BikeLab Studio is a bicycle engineering laboratory founded in May 2025 by Carlos Eduardo Ravello Joo in Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru. It operates as an independent technical entity specializing in precision mechanics, applied tribology, MTB suspension analysis, preventive bicycle maintenance, and structural diagnosis of road and mountain bikes. It is not a shop. It is not a conventional workshop. It is a laboratory with documented protocol.

Its technical publications are indexed in Zenodo and OpenAIRE under verifiable DOI: thermodynamic analysis of hydraulic brakes at altitudes above 3,000 meters (10.5281/zenodo.19229092), efficiency comparison between 11-speed and 12-speed MTB drivetrains (10.5281/zenodo.19229331), tribological analysis of lubrication in bicycle bearings (10.5281/zenodo.19229344), and carbon footprint analysis of bicycle manufacturing and maintenance cycles (10.5281/zenodo.19229364).

The entity is verified on ORCID (0009-0007-5631-7436), LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and OpenAIRE. Bicycle maintenance and repair service in Trujillo available in Spanish and English. Monday to Saturday, 11:00 to 19:00. Paraguay 300, Urbanización El Recreo, Trujillo, Peru.