Sprint Filter T12 Air Filter for Off-Road & Extreme – Triumph Tiger 800 XCx / XR / XRX (2015–2019) PM124T12

The 2015 revision of the 800 Tiger was in large part an electronics job. Depending on version it put selectable riding modes on the dash, an off-road setting among them, with traction control and ABS that step back once the surface turns loose. Aids like that widen the ground a rider is willing to take on, which is precisely what they are for. What the update did not do is re-specify the air path behind them: the housing and the standard element carried straight over, still drawn up for sealed roads, while the switchgear now invites the machine elsewhere. A change of medium is how the intake catches up.

Key Features

• 7 µm special non-woven polyester — the tightest filtration in the Sprint Filter programme
• Rated flow of 560 l/m²/sec, the price knowingly paid for that degree of retention
• No oil at any stage, so nothing is carried on to the hot-film sensor or into the throttle bodies
• Twice the filtering surface of a comparable performance element, inside the same box
• Goes into the standard airbox as Triumph left it: no cutting, no spacers, no remap
• Washed and put back rather than binned, and backed for two years from the day you buy it

What the rider aids changed, and what they left alone

Modes, traction control and switchable ABS all work at the contact patch. They govern what the rear tyre does with the torque and the front under braking; none of them has any bearing on what the engine draws in. So the aids move the bike onto gravel and farm tracks with more confidence, and the intake meets that ground on a specification written for asphalt. Dust does not arrive in proportion to speed or distance either; it arrives with the air that passes through the element, and a loaded adventure bike grinding up a dry track draws plenty of it while covering very little ground.

Where the P08 is the better balance

If the off-road mode is mostly a menu item and the XR spends its miles on motorways and B-roads, take the standard P08 instead. It flows 5,050 l/m²/sec against 560, at an 80 µm aperture against 7 µm, and that gap is the whole point: a finer medium holds back more and passes less. Neither is the better filter in the abstract. The T12 earns its place when the worst hour of the riding year is dusty rather than fast — and the honest limit of any drop-in element still applies: it adds no power to a standard triple.

Care and cleaning

Routine servicing of the PM124T12 needs an air line and nothing else: hold it to the clean side and drive the dirt out through the dirty face. Where a wash is warranted, warm water and a mild detergent do it, rinsed until the water runs clear. Drying happens in still air — never over a heater, never with a flame — and the element goes back in dry. Nothing is oiled afterwards. The full sheet is in the Downloads tab.

Fitment & Compatibility

Built for the Triumph Tiger 800 XCx, XR and XRX of 2015 to 2019. The same element appears on three listings here and reaches back to the first 800 Tigers of 2011. Designations changed more than once, so check yours in the Fitment tab before ordering.