We study the \({\mathbb {A}}^1\) -invariance of the unstable functor \(\textrm{K}_2(\Phi , R)\) in the case when \(\Phi \) is an irreducible root system of type \(\textsf{ADE}\) containing \({\textsf{A}}_4\) and not of type \({\textsf{E}}_8\) . We show that in the geometric case, i. e. when R is a regular ring containing a field k one has \({{\,\textrm{K}\,}}_2(\Phi , R[t]) = {{\,\textrm{K}\,}}_2(\Phi , R)\) , which allows one to interpret the unstable \({{\,\textrm{K}\,}}_2\) groups as \({\mathbb {A}}^1\) -fundamental groups of Chevalley–Demazure group schemes in the \({\mathbb {A}}^1\) -homotopy category. We also prove a variant of “early stability” theorem which allows one to find a generating set of \({{\,\textrm{K}\,}}_2(\Phi , A[X_1, \ldots X_n])\) in the case when A is a Dedekind domain.