The facts.
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The 850 Sport is the road-biased Tiger: cast wheels, road rubber, a screen and a job description that mostly reads commuting and touring. It looks like the last machine in the range that would want an off-road filter medium. The case for the PM214T12 here has nothing to do with gravel. It is about winter — about the grit spread on the road and thrown back into the air by everything ahead of you, which is the dirtiest air a year-round road motorcycle ever breathes.
Key Features
- Dry polyester non-woven filtering to 7 µm, built as a deep mat rather than a woven mesh
- 560 l/m²/sec: the highest retention and the lowest flow of any medium in the programme
- Entirely dry, with no oil to apply, to dose, or to be drawn on towards the throttle bodies
- About double the filtering area of rival performance elements in the unaltered airbox
- Direct fit in the series housing: no modification, no remap, nothing to sign off
- Cleaned with an air line and used again, laid out for the life of the bike, two-year warranty
The season a road bike gets dirty
Winter road maintenance puts crushed mineral material down by the lorry load, and traffic spends the following weeks grinding it finer. What is left hangs behind every vehicle as a hard, fine, airborne dust, and a motorcycle ridden all year meets it at exactly the time of year when nobody feels like opening an airbox to look. Gravel tracks are optional and can be avoided. This cannot, not by a bike that is used for getting to work.
What it costs the rest of the year
A good deal, on paper. 560 l/m²/sec against the standard weave's 5,050 is the steepest exchange Sprint Filter offers, and a faired sport tourer spends long stretches at sustained load, which is where an intake restriction is least welcome. Higher retention always means lower flow; the T12 is not a better element than the standard medium but one built for worse air. If the bike is laid up from November to March, the standard weave is the right specification and this is an answer to a question you never ask. If it goes out all winter, the balance moves. Either way, no panel filter makes a standard triple noticeably faster — what changes is what reaches the engine, and how steadily the resistance behaves between cleanings.
Care and cleaning
Salt and grit ask for water more often than dust does. Start with an air line from the clean face outwards, then wash the element in lukewarm water with a mild detergent whenever the winter has left a visible film, rinsing until the water runs clear. A dense mat holds water well, so give it real drying time in moving air — never heat, never a flame — and refit it only once it is dry. It is never oiled. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
Listed for the Triumph Tiger Sport 850 of 2021 to 2024. The same element serves one other listing, the Tiger 900 range in GT, Rally, GT Pro and Rally Pro form, which shares this airbox. Check your model year in the Fitment tab before ordering.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Triumph Tiger Sport (2021–2024)
- Triumph Tiger / GT / Rally / GT Pro / Rally Pro (2020–2026)
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