Ktm 390 Adventure R, Ktm 390 Adventure X, Ktm 390 Enduro R, Ktm 390 Smc R, model year 2025. Filed by KTM North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 23 December 2025. 2,512 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says KTM North America, Inc. (KTM) is recalling certain 2025 390 Adventure R, 390 SMC R, 390 Adventure X, and 390 Enduro R motorcycles. Engine vibrations may cause the side stand spring to break and the side stand to fall to the ground.
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: KTB2514. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V907 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 25V907 cover?
- KTM 390 Adventure R, KTM 390 Adventure X, KTM 390 Enduro R, KTM 390 SMC R, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- KTM North America, Inc. (KTM) is recalling certain 2025 390 Adventure R, 390 SMC R, 390 Adventure X, and 390 Enduro R motorcycles. Engine vibrations may cause the side stand spring to break and the side stand to fall to the ground.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A motorcycle side stand that falls to the ground while riding can shut off the ignition, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised to secure the side stand before riding the motorcycle until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will replace the side stand spring and install a new side stand sensor retaining plate, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed on February 17, 2026.
- 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 KTB2514, 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: “A motorcycle side stand that falls to the ground while riding can shut off the ignition, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V907 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | KTM North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Motorcycle:Kickstand/Center Stand |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | KTM 390 ADVENTURE R, KTM 390 ADVENTURE X, KTM 390 ENDURO R, KTM 390 SMC R |
What the notice says today
The defect
KTM North America, Inc. (KTM) is recalling certain 2025 390 Adventure R, 390 SMC R, 390 Adventure X, and 390 Enduro R motorcycles. Engine vibrations may cause the side stand spring to break and the side stand to fall to the ground.
The consequence
A motorcycle side stand that falls to the ground while riding can shut off the ignition, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised to secure the side stand before riding the motorcycle until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will replace the side stand spring and install a new side stand sensor retaining plate, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed on February 17, 2026. Owners may contact KTM customer service at 1-888-985-6090. The manufacturer's number for this recall is KTB2514. The information in your report suggests that KTM North America, Inc. (KTM) may have been aware of this issue more than five business days before filing a report with NHTSA. Please be reminded that under Federal law, this agency is to be notified of all safety defect and/or noncompliance decisions within five business days. 49 CFR 573.6. Significant civil penalties can be assessed for this violation.
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 724ef0197caf4fa702d97cad4b639a25…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V907, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v907/
The copy quoted above hashes to 724ef0197caf4fa702d97cad4b639a25…. 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 KTM notices we hold
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- 26V196: 2022-2023 390 Duke and 2022-2024 RC 390 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
- 23V632: 2019-2023 (KTSV) XL-12 trailers equipped with Carrier Transicold Supra 950, 950MT, and 960 refrigeration units
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 25V907 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ba7792ac - Consequence
9ea03911 - 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.
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