{"product_id":"sprint-filter-t12-air-filter-bmw-f-850-gs","title":"Sprint Filter T12 Air Filter for Off-Road \u0026 Extreme – BMW F 850 GS (2017–2026) PM188T12","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlenty of F 850 GSs are ridden by people who do not own them. Rental fleets and guided-tour operators are steady customers for this class, and a machine used that way keeps a different sort of time: engine hours rather than an owner's mileage, a new rider every few days, a fortnight of dry gravel and then a pressure wash. Whoever specifies the intake on a bike like that buys for the hardest week of its year, not the average one — the setting in which the finest medium in the catalogue stops looking exotic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDry special non-woven in polyester, rated at 7 microns of filtration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlow rated at 560 l\/m²\/sec, the figure that comes with a medium this fine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo oil in it new and none applied after washing — nothing to migrate downstream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDirect exchange for the factory element inside the unaltered airbox, no remapping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClose to twice the working surface of other performance filters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesigned to last the life of the motorcycle, with a two-year guarantee from purchase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA part with a state you can return to\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaper only travels one way. It loads, its resistance climbs, and the only remedy is a new one — which is why a fleet bike's intake history is written by whoever last signed the service sheet. A washable element behaves differently: after air and, when needed, water, it comes back to a condition close to the one it started in, over and over. That gives a machine passed between riders something rare, a baseline that can be restored rather than guessed at. It also suits the rhythm of hire work, where the airbox is opened on a schedule anyway and a fine medium can be looked after properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe flow it gives back\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of that is free, and the size of the bill deserves stating plainly. Where the standard P08 filters at 80 microns and carries a rated 5,050 l\/m²\/sec, this non-woven filters at 7 microns and carries 560: roughly a ninth of the air through an equal area of material. Retention and flow move against each other — a finer medium is stricter, never simply better — so this is a choice about the air the bike breathes, not a rank in a league table. It also adds no noticeable power to a standard 850, and any description suggesting otherwise is selling something a filter cannot do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCare and cleaning\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe routine takes minutes and needs no consumables. Air is applied to the clean face of the PM188T12 and worked outward until the mat gives up its load; if the trip was hard enough that air alone leaves it grey, warm water and a mild detergent will take the rest, followed by a rinse until nothing more comes out. From there it dries in open air and only in open air — heat guns, ovens and flames all destroy the medium — and goes back in fully dry. The maintenance sheet is stored in the Downloads tab.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFitment \u0026amp; Compatibility\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade for the BMW F 850 GS built between 2017 and 2026, replacing the original element in the standard airbox. Eleven machines take this part number across three makes — the BMW middleweight F models, the Kove 800 X and Voge's Valico adventure range. See the Fitment tab for the complete list.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sprint Filter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532092072202,"sku":"PM188T12","price":10800.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7831\/0410\/files\/PM188T12_c81ceb90-93cb-40cc-afd3-1d81ad8d7b25.png?v=1787141833","url":"https:\/\/inter-pace.com\/en-ke\/products\/sprint-filter-t12-air-filter-bmw-f-850-gs","provider":"Inter-Pace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}