Sprint Filter T12 Air Filter for Off-Road & Extreme – MV Agusta Turismo Veloce 800 / Lusso / RC / SCS (2015–2026) CM135T12

Eleven MV Agusta machines share the airbox this element sits in. Exactly one of them is offered the T12 cloth, and it is the Turismo Veloce. That is the price list making a recommendation the hard way — not in words, but with a fitment row that stops after a single entry. What the row proposes is a long step down: 7 µm at a rated 560 l/m²/sec, where the standard element for the same box reads 80 µm and 5,050.

Key Features

• T12 special non-woven polyester, dry, 7 µm, rated 560 l/m²/sec
• Listed for the Turismo Veloce and for no other machine on this airbox
• Drops into the series housing as it stands — nothing cut, nothing moved, no remap
• Never oiled, so there is nothing that can travel downstream onto the intake sensors
• Washable and reusable, regenerated with compressed air rather than replaced
• Two years of warranty from purchase; designed to last the life of the motorcycle

The factor of nine, and when it is paid

560 against 5,050 is roughly a ninth of the rated flow, and it is not a charge that falls only on the days the fine cloth is needed. It is paid on every kilometre the element spends in the bike, motorway miles included, and a sport-tourer covers a very large number of those. That makes CM135T12 a route decision rather than a machine decision. Fit it for the leg that crosses gravel, a dry summer track or a construction detour, and expect to put the standard element back afterwards. Nothing dropped into a series airbox adds power, and this one is not bought in that hope.

What seven microns is actually aimed at

Not the grit you can see. The fraction that matters here is fine mineral dust, the part that a more open weave passes and that reaches the bore and the rings, where the cost turns up years later rather than on the ride home. A finer medium holds more of it and lets less air through — a trade, not a ranking. The T12 is not a better filter than the standard weave; it is made for different air, and putting it into a machine that never meets that air only buys the debit half. Both panels are washable, so trying the fine one and going back later costs nothing but the work.

Care and cleaning

Compressed air is still the routine, and it is still applied to the clean face and blown outward, so that the load leaves along the path it came in on. Where a hard, dusty stretch has left more than air will lift, wash the medium in lukewarm water with a mild washing-up detergent and rinse it until the water comes through clear. Then it dries in moving air and in nothing else — a heat gun, a radiator or an open flame is what destroys polyester. It is refitted dry, with nothing applied to it. The maintenance sheet for CM135T12 is in the Downloads tab.

Fitment & Compatibility

Made for the airbox of the MV Agusta Turismo Veloce 800 in its Lusso, RC and SCS forms, catalogued from 2015 to 2026. One machine on this row; the standard element for the same housing covers eleven.