{"product_id":"sprint-filter-p08-air-filter-triumph-tiger-sport-850","title":"Sprint Filter P08 Air Filter for Road \u0026 Track – Triumph Tiger Sport 850 (2021–2024) PM214S","description":"\u003cp\u003eTriumph gave this generation of triple a T-plane crankshaft, so the three cylinders do not fire at even intervals. The engine draws its air in an uneven sequence rather than a smoothly spaced one, and a good deal of how the 850 Sport sounds and feels comes from that. A filter's flow rating says nothing about it. The 5,050 l\/m²\/sec printed against the PM214S is a steady figure measured across a square metre of cloth on a bench, not a description of what this intake does between two firing events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne layer of dry woven polyester, aperture calibrated to 80 µm, threads from ø 22 microns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRated at 5,050 l\/m²\/sec, Sprint Filter's standard medium for road and track work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDry by design, so nothing is carried into the intake tract sitting behind it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoughly twice the filtering area of rival performance elements in the unmodified box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDirect replacement for the paper panel, with no airbox work and no recalibration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWashed and refitted indefinitely, laid out for the life of the machine, two-year warranty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat a rating describes\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlow ratings are properties of a material, established under steady conditions so that one material can be set against another. They are honest numbers answering exactly one question: how freely does this cloth pass air compared with that cloth? They do not say what an engine needs, or when it needs it, or what happens in the fraction of a second while one inlet valve opens ahead of the even schedule. The sensible use of such figures is to choose between media for one motorcycle, never to predict anything about the motorcycle itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhy none of it becomes a power claim\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe element is the last and smallest link in a chain that starts at the intake mouth and runs on through snorkel, airbox volume, throttle bodies and valve timing. None of that alters when the panel does, which is also why no remapping is called for — an argument that cuts both ways, since a change too small to need recalibration is too small to promise a figure. A drop-in filter will not make a standard 850 Sport noticeably faster. What it does is hold the intake resistance low and, more usefully, keep it there: cleaned, it returns to its starting value instead of climbing towards the next service the way a cellulose panel has to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCare and cleaning\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompressed air, applied to the clean face and pushed outwards, does everything the element normally needs. Twice-yearly, or after a winter of salted roads, lukewarm water and a mild detergent will take off what air will not, and it is rinsed until the water runs clear. Then open-air drying, well away from heaters and naked flames, and back in dry. Nothing is oiled at any stage. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFitment \u0026amp; Compatibility\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the Triumph Tiger Sport 850 built from 2021 to 2024. One further listing shares this element, the Tiger 900 in its GT, Rally, GT Pro and Rally Pro forms, which use the same airbox. Confirm your model year in the Fitment tab before ordering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sprint Filter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53533207167242,"sku":"PM214S","price":77.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7831\/0410\/files\/PM214S.png?v=1787205207","url":"https:\/\/inter-pace.com\/en-mg\/products\/sprint-filter-p08-air-filter-triumph-tiger-sport-850","provider":"Inter-Pace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}