Sprint Filter T12 Air Filter for Off-Road & Extreme – Husqvarna 701 Supermoto (2016–2026) PM74T12

The 701 Supermoto and the 701 Enduro are the same motorcycle with different wheels. Rims, tyres, suspension travel and gearing separate them; engine, frame and airbox do not. Plenty of owners keep both configurations and one bike, swapping wheel sets for the weekend. That is the fact that should decide the filter medium, because PM74T12 is specified for a way of riding rather than for a model name — and the name on the tank is the one piece of information that will not tell you how this particular bike spends its year.

Key Features

• Dry speciality nonwoven in polyester, never oiled and never treated
• Retention at 7 microns with 560 litres per square metre per second of flow
• Filtering area roughly double that of other performance filters
• Washable and reusable, designed for the life of the motorcycle
• Standard airbox fit, with nothing cut and no fuelling change
• Two-year warranty from the date of purchase

Specify the year, not the badge

If the supermoto wheels stay on all season and the bike lives on tarmac, this is the wrong end of the range: 7 microns at 560 litres per square metre per second against the standard weave's 80 microns and 5,050 is about a ninth of the flow, paid on every ride for a load that mostly never arrives. If the enduro wheels go on for whole weekends, or the bike sees unsealed roads, or it is ridden in company where your air is decided by the machine ahead, the finer medium is doing real work. The question is one of proportion, and only the owner is in a position to answer it.

The trade, stated plainly

Finer means more retained and less passed, in that order and always. There is no rung here to climb: a T12 is not an upgrade over the standard element, and the standard element is not a cheap version of a T12. They are two answers to two different kinds of air, and the finer one also fills sooner, so the lid comes off more often. Nor will either of them make a standard 701 noticeably quicker — a panel inside an unmodified housing has no mechanism for that. What a dry medium offers is a restriction you reset with compressed air instead of with a purchase.

Care and cleaning

Air from the clean face outwards, so the load is pushed back out the way it entered rather than deeper into the material. Water and a mild detergent where air is not enough, then rinse until nothing more comes away. Drying happens in air alone, at a distance from heat and flame, and a fine medium needs longer than you expect — refit it only when it is dry right through. Nothing is oiled at the end. The maintenance sheet for PM74T12 is in the Downloads tab of this page.

Fitment & Compatibility

For the Husqvarna 701 Supermoto built from 2016 to 2026. Two machines carry this code, the 701 Supermoto and the 701 Enduro, and the Fitment tab shows both. The KTM 690 SMC R / Enduro R runs the same airbox but is listed only for the standard medium.