Sprint Filter P08 Air Filter for Road & Track – Honda CB1000R (2018–2026) PM203S

The most common intake change on an unfaired litre bike is not a filter at all. It is the removal of the airbox itself, replaced by a pair of exposed cones under the seat unit: the more visible modification, and certainly the louder one. It also discards a component Honda designed as part of the running engine — a volume of a particular size, fed by a duct of a particular length, ahead of throttle bodies calibrated around both. The element listed here is the change that keeps all of that where it is.

Key Features

• Woven dry polyester, 80 µm at 5,050 l/m²/sec — the road and track specification
• Leaves the standard airbox volume, ducting and factory calibration untouched
• Around twice the working cloth of a typical performance element
• Never oiled, so nothing can migrate onto the sensors downstream
• A straight exchange for the standard panel: no cutting, no repositioning, no remap
• Cleaned rather than replaced; two years of guarantee, life-of-machine specification

What an airbox is doing while you ride

It is not a box with a filter in it. It is a tuned volume feeding a fuelling map developed around that volume, which is why removing it rarely ends with removing it: the air path becomes shorter and unmeasured, and the fuelling work follows. Leaving the housing in place keeps the CB1000R exactly as Honda calibrated it, and changes only the material inside. An element sized to fill the standard aperture is not competing with the airbox. It works inside it, which is the whole reason no remap is called for.

Dirt takes the shortest path it is offered

The second thing a standard housing does is decide where the air comes from, drawing it through a duct that begins somewhere chosen rather than in the open behind a wheel. Cones under the seat give up that choice along with the calibration. None of this is a performance argument in either direction: an insert filter does not make a standard motorcycle noticeably stronger, and nothing here will pretend otherwise. It is an argument for keeping both things the housing was designed to provide, and renewing only the part that was always meant to be renewed.

Care and cleaning

Most of the time the PM203S wants nothing but compressed air, held at the clean face and worked outward so the dust leaves along the path it entered. After a wet or dirty spell, lukewarm water and a mild washing-up detergent will take what air cannot, rinsed off until the water runs clear. Drying is done by patience rather than heat: no hot air gun, no radiator, no flame, because polyester distorts and a distorted element seals imperfectly for the rest of its life. Refit it dry and untreated. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab.

Fitment & Compatibility

Cut for the airbox of the Honda CB1000R built from 2018 to 2026, which is the entire fitment list. Two other media are catalogued for the same housing, the fine P14 for dusty air and the P08 F1-85 racing cloth, and both fit the standard airbox in the same way. See the Fitment tab.