The facts.
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Fuel, oil, a tyre plug, a spare lever: everything a Tiger 800 XC needs on a long journey can be carried or bought along the way. Air cannot. It is taken from wherever the bike happens to be, in whatever state that place keeps it, and the only thing standing between the place and the engine is a panel about the size of a paperback. For the largest single input the engine consumes that is a strange asymmetry, and it is the whole reason the element is worth any thought at all.
Key Features
- Dry woven polyester in one layer, 80 µm calibrated aperture, thread diameters from 22 microns
- 5,050 l/m²/sec of rated flow, Sprint Filter's standard specification for road and track
- No oil anywhere in the element, so nothing is carried forward to the sensor or the injectors
- Close to double the filtering area of rival performance elements, in the housing as it stands
- Slots into the series airbox unaltered: no cutting, no remap, no paperwork
- Serviced with air rather than money, made to last the machine, two years of cover from purchase
The one input you take from the place
Two properties of the air are set by where you are rather than by what you ride. Its density falls with altitude and with heat, and no filter gives any of that back. Its cleanliness is decided by the surface, the season and whatever is travelling in front of you, and no filter changes that either. What is left to the rider is how much resistance gets added on top, and there the media really do differ: a cellulose panel adds a figure that only ever climbs, while a washed P08 goes back to where it began at every service.
What the letters XC describe
Spoked wheels and suspension travel — chassis, in other words. Triumph gave the XC the same airbox as the road-going Tiger, so the intake draws no distinction between them and the PM124S is the element for both. Where the riding is genuinely dusty rather than merely unsurfaced, the same housing takes a T12, which retains a great deal more and flows a great deal less. That is an exchange, not a promotion. On either medium the honest limit is the same: a panel filter will not make a standard 800 triple noticeably stronger. It gives it an intake resistance that stays low instead of drifting upwards between services.
Care and cleaning
Compressed air is the routine: aim it at the clean face and push the dust back out through the side it entered. After a filthy trip, or once a season, lukewarm water with a mild detergent will take the rest, rinsed until the water runs clear. Drying happens in open air and takes as long as it takes; no heater, no flame, nothing refitted damp. There is no oiling step afterwards. The full sheet lives in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
For the Triumph Tiger 800 XC built from 2011 to 2019. Two further listings share this element, the base Tiger 800 and the later XCx, XR and XRX, so one part covers the 800 family from the first machines to the end of production. The ranges overlap, so check yours in the Fitment tab before ordering.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Triumph Tiger (2011–2015)
- Triumph Tiger XC800 (2011–2019)
- Triumph Tiger XCx / XR / XRX (2015–2019)
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