Honda Cb1000sp, model year 2025. Filed by Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) and reported to NHTSA on 23 October 2025. 340 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2025 CB1000SP Hornet SP motorcycles. The pivot bolt on the gearshift pedal may loosen and detach, resulting in the inability to shift gears. As such, these motorcycles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 123, …
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Honda's own number for this recall: KT2. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V723 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 25V723 cover?
- Honda Cb1000Sp, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2025 CB1000SP Hornet SP motorcycles. The pivot bolt on the gearshift pedal may loosen and detach, resulting in the inability to shift gears.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The inability to shift gears while riding increases the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the pivot bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 1, 2025. Owners may contact Honda's customer service at 1-866-784-1870. Honda's number for this recall is KT2.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Honda calls this recall KT2, 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: “The inability to shift gears while riding increases the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V723 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) |
| System at fault | Power Train:Clutch Assembly:Pedal/Hand Lever(Motorcycle) |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 October 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | HONDA CB1000SP |
What the notice says today
The defect
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2025 CB1000SP Hornet SP motorcycles. The pivot bolt on the gearshift pedal may loosen and detach, resulting in the inability to shift gears. As such, these motorcycles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 123, "Motorcycle Controls and Displays."
The consequence
The inability to shift gears while riding increases the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the pivot bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 1, 2025. Owners may contact Honda's customer service at 1-866-784-1870. Honda's number for this recall is KT2. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning October 28, 2025.
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 9d58299f6e5dafa94e7df10570959527…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V723, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v723/
The copy quoted above hashes to 9d58299f6e5dafa94e7df10570959527…. 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.
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Other Honda notices we hold
- 26V500: 2017-2023, 2025 CMX500, 2017-2023, 2025-2026 CMX300, and 2025 Honda SCL500 motorcycles
- 26V424: 2026 Pilot and Passport
- 26V423: 2018-2020 Odyssey
- 26V366: 2023-2026 CR-V Hybrid, Accord Hybrid, and 2025-2026 CR-V Fuel Cell EV
- 26V365: 2016-2022 Honda Pilot, 2017-2023 Ridgeline, 2019-2023 Passport, and 2014-2020 Acura MDX
- 26V306: 2024-2025 Honda Prologue and 2024 Acura ZDX
- 26V227: 2018-2022 Odyssey
- 26V194: 2025 CB1000SP motorcycles
All 256 Honda campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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- Defect summary
7da71e9f - Consequence
fc5bf3d4 - Remedy
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