The facts.
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The airbox shared by KTM's big adventure twins is offered three Sprint Filter media and no more. The standard weave, 80 µm at 5,050 l/m²/sec, covers thirteen machines. The extreme non-woven, 7 µm at 560, covers six. This one, the racing weave rated at 15,000 and woven from polyester threads from 22 µm in diameter, covers two — and the 1090 Adventure is one of them. Between 80 microns and 7 there is nothing at all on this housing. The choice is not a scale; it is three widely spaced points.
Key Features
- P08 F1-85 racing weave, dry polyester threads from 22 µm in diameter, rated at 15,000 l/m²/sec
- Listed for two machines on this airbox, where the standard element is listed for thirteen
- Direct replacement in the series housing: no modification and no mapping change
- Never oiled, from new and after every wash — nothing can travel onto the intake sensors
- Roughly twice the filtering surface of other performance filters
- Two years of warranty from purchase; designed to last the life of the motorcycle
The gap the 1090 sits in
A large travel twin on mixed surfaces has a use case that lands squarely in the empty middle of this range: something tighter than the standard weave, nowhere near as restrictive as the extreme mat. For this airbox the catalogue does not offer that. Neither the water-repellent medium nor the intermediate non-woven appears against any of these machines, so the honest reading is that the standard element is the default for a 1090 and the two outliers are for particular days. This is the outlier at the free-flowing end.
What the racing weave costs and what it buys
A little over twice the standard element for the same housing. The 85 in its name is not a pore size, and the cloth is not a looser copy of the standard one: the rated flow is about three times as high, and in Sprint Filter's own test it still holds back 95.22 % of 100-micron particles against 93.13 % for the P08. It is built around flow, which is not what most adventure riders are shopping for. That is as clear a statement as there is about who this medium was drawn for: it answers sustained wide-open running, a condition a loaded 1090 on a mountain pass reaches rarely and only in short bursts. It does not add power to a standard machine; nothing fitted inside an unmodified airbox does.
Care and cleaning
PM155S F1-85 is serviced without anything being applied to it. Compressed air on the clean face, blown outward, so the load leaves along the path it came in on; that is the whole of an ordinary clean. A dusty tour that leaves more behind than air will lift comes out with lukewarm water and a mild washing-up detergent, rinsed until the water runs clear. Then it dries in open air only, for as long as that takes — a heat gun, a radiator or a flame is what destroys polyester, and there is no version of this step that can be hurried. It is refitted dry. The maintenance sheet is under Downloads.
Fitment & Compatibility
Specified for the airbox of the KTM 1090 Adventure and 1090 Adventure R, catalogued from 2016 to 2019. One other machine carries this medium: the 1290 Super Adventure R and S, listed from 2015.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- KTM Adventure/R (2016–2019)
- KTM Super Adventure R/S (2015–2026)
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