{"product_id":"sprint-filter-p08-air-filter-bmw-r-1200-gs-adventure","title":"Sprint Filter P08 Air Filter for Road \u0026 Track – BMW R 1200 GS Adventure (2014–2018) PM142S","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobody buys a GS Adventure for the average day. The bigger tank, the extra protection, the reinforced everything: it is capability held in reserve, paid for deliberately and left unused for most of the machine's life. That habit of mind is the right one to bring to a filter's specification, because both of the numbers on it describe reserve rather than consumption. The Sprint Filter PM142S is the dry, washable polyester element for this airbox, and its figures are best read the way an Adventure owner reads a fuel range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDry woven polyester in a single layer, oil-free when it arrives and oil-free after every wash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFiltration at 80 µm with 5,050 l\/m²\/sec of rated flow, the specification built for road and track\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThreads from ø 22 microns across — the 80 µm figure belongs to the weave, not to the fibre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClose to twice the working cloth of a typical performance element, inside the unmodified housing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA straight swap for the factory paper panel, with the airbox and the mapping left alone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eServiced with air instead of replaced, backed by two years of guarantee from the date of purchase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTwo figures, both of them reserve\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flow rating is a ceiling and not a demand. It says how much air the medium could pass through each square metre every second, and a road boxer calls for a fraction. Retention runs the other way but is just as invisible: 93.13 per cent of 100-micron test particles held back, against 76.42 per cent for four-layer oiled cotton in the same measurement, is protection nobody ever watches happening. Neither figure promises speed. An element dropped into the standard box does not make a standard Adventure noticeably more powerful. It holds the intake at a known resistance and puts it back there at every clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhen the reserve is actually spent\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is one case where the specification stops being theoretical, and this is the machine most likely to meet it: sustained loose ground. Sprint Filter lists other media for the same airbox — a T12 at 7 µm and 560 l\/m²\/sec, made for extreme conditions, and a P14 at 14 µm and 1,800 l\/m²\/sec for dust. Finer cloth holds more and passes less. That is a trade rather than a ladder, and a T12 is not a better filter than a P08 but a filter for different air. For a bike whose year is mostly tarmac and graded gravel, the P08 is the correct end of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCare and cleaning\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe whole service is an air line. Hold the clean face to the nozzle and blow outward, so whatever the weave stopped leaves by the route it arrived on. After a wet or gritty stretch, hand-warm water with a little mild washing-up liquid lifts what air will not, and the element is rinsed through until the run-off is clean. It then dries in open air alone — no heat gun, no radiator, no flame — and is refitted dry. Cleaning instructions are filed under Downloads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFitment \u0026amp; Compatibility\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut for the airbox of the BMW R 1200 GS Adventure of 2014 to 2018, in place of the standard paper element. This part number covers nine machines across the boxer range, listed with their model years in the Fitment tab.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sprint Filter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53531833925898,"sku":"PM142S","price":99.26,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7831\/0410\/files\/PM142S_1245ae89-b324-407f-b6fb-ef9020149e45.png?v=1787121144","url":"https:\/\/inter-pace.com\/en-ca\/products\/sprint-filter-p08-air-filter-bmw-r-1200-gs-adventure","provider":"Inter-Pace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}