motolab — distribution partnerships

You get a call at 7pm. Customer needs an RX135 piston, tomorrow morning, no excuses. You don’t have it. Sound familiar? Keep reading.

RX100RX135RX-ZRX 5-Speed

It usually starts with a phone ringing too late in the day.

A workshop owner somewhere in Palakkad, hands still black with grease, needing one part he cant find anywhere close by. Not a big order. Just one piston, one gasket, one thing standing between him and a customer who’s already annoyed.

That’s how most of our partnerships actually begin. Not with a sales pitch. With a problem nobody else was bothering to solve.

We started small too, if it helps. A tiny counter, a handful of RX100 parts, and a stubborn refusal to sell anything we wouldn’t put in our own bike. Years on, that’s still the whole business, really. Genuine Yamaha RX-series parts — RX100, RX135, RX-Z, the 5-Speed — sourced right, stocked deep, and shipped fast across Kerala and, increasingly, well beyond it.

We dont really sell parts. We sell not having to worry about parts.

Here’s the thing nobody says out loud

Half the workshops running today are stocking parts they aren’t fully sure about themselves. Local casting dressed up in a genuine-looking box. A supplier who swears its the real thing and then goes quiet the moment something fails.

It works, for a while. Until it doesn’t. A customer comes back angry, maybe stranded on the roadside with a bike that shouldn’t have failed. Word travels fast in a small town — faster than any of us would like. And suddenly the workshop that cut corners on one piston is the one everyone’s warning their cousin about.

We’ve watched this play out more times than we care to count. Which is mostly why we started thinking about partnerships in the first place. Not to grow bigger for the sake of it. To put fewer bad parts on fewer roads.

What partnering with Motolab actually looks like

01

Genuine stock, always

Priority access to RX100, RX135, RX-Z and 5-Speed parts. No more waiting a week for someone to “check availability” while your customer sits without a bike.

02

Margins that actually make sense

Pricing built so resale is worth your time, not just enough for us to get by. We’d rather have fewer partners doing well than a lot of them barely holding on.

03

A direct line, no middlemen

A phone that gets picked up. A person on the other end who knows the difference between a piston ring and a gasket, and wont waste your afternoon finding out.

04

Marketing that pulls customers your way

Co-branded listings, content, and the Motolab name behind your shop. Riders searching for genuine RX parts end up finding you, not just us.

05

Training, if you want it

Genuine versus aftermarket, side by side. How to spot a fake before it costs you a customer, not after.

We’re not trying to sign up every workshop in the state.

Just the ones who still care whether the part they hand over actually works. If that’s you, we’d like to talk. Doesn’t need to be formal — tell us where you’re based, what you currently stock, and what you’re tired of dealing with. Your name Workshop / shop location Phone number Become a Distribution Partner

Motolab — genuine RX-series parts. Kerala and beyond.