Provenance is
the product.
Nova Dragon Moto is a curatorial house for the motorcycles of the 1990s — the last generation built before the electronics arrived. We find them, restore them, document them, and place them with people who understand what they are holding.
- Reference
- NDM / R / 0000
- Machine
- Honda CBR900RR FireBlade
- Year
- 1993
- Frame
- Matching · verified against registration
- Engine
- Matching · original casting
- Title
- Clear · unbroken document trail
- Grade
- II — Presentation
A gallery that happens to sell motorcycles.
A dealership moves stock. A workshop bills hours. We do neither. Every machine that carries our reference has been chosen for a reason, taken apart for a reason, and written up so that the next custodian — and the one after that — inherits the argument along with the object.
Found, not ordered
The good ones are not on forecourts. They are in estates, in back rooms, standing under a sheet behind someone's late father's workbench, listed as a project by someone who never knew what they had. We look every day.
Correct before pretty
Originality outranks improvement. Where a part must be replaced, it is replaced to specification and recorded. What was done, what was kept, and what was replaced is written down while the machine is still in pieces.
Placed, not sold
Each machine leaves with a dossier: photographs of the strip, invoices, the document trail, and the grade. That file is the difference between a used motorcycle and a collectable one.
What we are looking for, and what is in hand.
The register is the working list. Machines move through it in one direction: sought, acquired, in commission, then placed. If something here is on your own list, tell us — we will call you before it reaches the floor.
Machines marked Private collection belong to the founder's collection. They are held privately and are not offered for placement. They appear here because they were acquired, checked and documented to exactly the standard described below.
Nothing else on this register is offered until its documents and numbers have been verified and its dossier is complete. Status is updated as machines move.
Where a machine sits is a judgement, not a price band.
The tier is decided before the money is. Scarcity, race pedigree, and whether the collector market has already settled its view — those three questions place a machine. Price follows.
Select
Honest, sorted machines of the period. Mechanically correct, cosmetically consistent, documented to the same standard as everything else we touch. The entry to the marque.
- Full mechanical recommission
- Document trail verified
- Graded and photographed
Rider Series
The core of the house. Machines with a story worth telling, restored to be used as they were meant to be — suspension set up, brakes rebuilt, fuelling correct, nothing left as found because it was easier.
- Full strip and rebuild
- Suspension rebuilt and set to rider
- Complete provenance dossier
Signature
Reserved for the machines that justify it. Homologation specials, low-volume exotica, and the handful of bikes whose value rests entirely on being demonstrably what they claim to be.
- Numbers matching, non-negotiable
- Sealed certificate of provenance
- Single-machine photographic record
Two things we will not trade away.
Condition can be bought back. Paint can be redone, an engine can be rebuilt, a fairing can be found. A missing document trail cannot be repaired, and a mismatched number cannot be unmade. So the gate sits there, before price is ever discussed.
A clean title and an unbroken trail
Registration in order, ownership traceable, no gap we cannot account for. If the paperwork does not stand up, the machine does not enter the register — however good it looks in the photographs.
Numbers that match
Frame and engine verified against the documents by hand, not by listing description. This is what separates a restored motorcycle from a collectable one, and it is the whole basis of the certificate.
Then, the dossier
Strip photography, parts and invoices, the work log, the grade, and the sealed certificate. It travels with the machine and it is updated when the machine changes hands.
Tell us what you are looking for.
Most of what we place never reaches this page. If there is a specific machine you want — a particular year, a particular colour, the one you had at twenty-three — a standing commission is the fastest way to find it.
We will also look at what you already own. If you are considering releasing something from your own collection, we buy correctly documented machines of the period outright.
Or write directly: info@novadragonmoto.com
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