Ktm 1290 Super Duke R, model years 2020 to 2022. Filed by KTM North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 6 December 2022. 1,040 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says KTM North America, Inc. (KTM) is recalling all 2020-2022 1290 Super Duke R and Super Duke R EVO motorcycles. The main wiring harness may be misrouted or missing parts, which can cause wiring harness damage and result in an electrical short-circuit or engine stall.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
KTM's own number for this recall: KTB2211. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V900 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 22V900 cover?
- KTM 1290 Super Duke R, model years 2020-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- KTM North America, Inc. (KTM) is recalling all 2020-2022 1290 Super Duke R and Super Duke R EVO motorcycles. The main wiring harness may be misrouted or missing parts, which can cause wiring harness damage and result in an electrical short-circuit or engine stall.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and repair the main wiring harness installation, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 26, 2023. Owners may contact KTM customer service at 1-888-985-6090. KTM's number for this recall is KTB2211.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Ktm calls this recall KTB2211, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V900 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | KTM North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 December 2022 |
| Model years | 2020-2022 |
| Vehicles named | KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and repair the main wiring harness installation, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 26, 2023. Owners may contact KTM customer service at 1-888-985-6090. KTM's number for this recall is KTB2211.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2022697, recorded 8 December 2022 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on KTB2211, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 22V900, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v900/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other KTM notices we hold
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- 26V196: 2022-2023 390 Duke and 2022-2024 RC 390 motorcycles
- 25V907: 2025 390 Adventure R, 390 SMC R, 390 Adventure X, and 390 Enduro R motorcycles
- 25V825: 2024 Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Husqvarna Svartpilen 401, 2024-2025 390 Duke, 2025 390 SMC R, 390 Enduro R, 390 Adventure X, and 390 Adventure R motorcycles
- 25V740: 2024 390 Duke, 250 Duke, 990 Duke, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, and Husqvarna Svartpilen 401 motorcycles
- 25V598: 2022-2023 Husqvarna Svartpilen 401, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, and 2022-2024 KTM 390 Adventure motorcycles
- 25V074: 2022-2024 Husqvarna FE 350s, FE 501s, and 2024-2025 GASGAS ES 350 and ES 500 motorcycles
- 24V642: 2022-2024 (KTB) MV and PV truck bodies
All 33 KTM campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 22V900 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e4c5e6cc - Consequence
b9a2531f - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 22V900 · how the whole register is watched
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