Harley-Davidson Rh1250s, model years 2021 to 2025. Filed by Harley-Davidson Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 10 September 2025. 8,424 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain RH1250S (Sportster S) motorcycles. The upper triple clamp may fracture.
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.
Harley Davidson's own number for this recall: 0190. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V590 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 25V590 cover?
- Harley-Davidson Rh1250S, model years 2021-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain RH1250S (Sportster S) motorcycles. The upper triple clamp may fracture.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An upper triple clamp that fractures while the motorcycle is being operated could lead to a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the upper triple clamp, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 1, 2025. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Harley-Davidson's number for this recall is 0190.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Harley Davidson calls this recall 0190, 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 upper triple clamp that fractures while the motorcycle is being operated could lead to a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V590 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Harley-Davidson Motor Company |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 September 2025 |
| Model years | 2021-2025 |
| Vehicles named | HARLEY-DAVIDSON RH1250S |
What the notice says today
The defect
Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain RH1250S (Sportster S) motorcycles. The upper triple clamp may fracture.
The consequence
An upper triple clamp that fractures while the motorcycle is being operated could lead to a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the upper triple clamp, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 1, 2025. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Harley-Davidson's number for this recall is 0190.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 2f22f3b977e6586c4f15be41e0684288…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 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 2025486, recorded 15 September 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 0190, 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 25V590, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v590/
The copy quoted above hashes to 2f22f3b977e6586c4f15be41e0684288…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 Harley Davidson notices we hold
- 26V270: 2024-2026 FLTRX, FLHX, 2025-2026 FXBR, FLFB, 2025 FLHXU, 2026 FLTRXL, FLTRT, FLHXL, and FLHLT motorcycles built with an Airbox Baseplate (part number 29000373)
- 26V234: 2025-2026 FLHC, FXBB, FXLRS, and FXLRST Softail motorcycles
- 25V375: 2018-2024 Softail motorcycles
- 24V753: 2022 FXRST and 2022-2024 FXLRST motorcycles
- 24V719: 2018-2019 Softail FXBB Street Bob and 2018-2019 Softail FXLR Low Rider motorcycles
- 24V672: 2024 FLHX, FLHXSE, FLTRX, FLTRXSE, and FLTRXSTSE motorcycles
- 23V836: 2023 FLHXSE (Street Glide CVO) motorcycles
- 23V672: 2023 FLHXSE and FLTRXSE motorcycles
All 40 Harley Davidson 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 25V590 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
43b6a742 - Consequence
cd9f2cb6 - 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 25V590 · how the whole register is watched
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