Sprint Filter P08 Air Filter for Road & Track – Honda CBF1000F (2010–2015) CM96S

A CBF1000F spends its best hours at a steady cruise with the screen wound up, and that is where its airbox works hardest: air in an unbroken stream, hour after hour, carrying whatever the season has put into it. On a fast road bike that is rarely the mineral grit people picture. It is insects on a warm evening, pollen in spring, seed fluff off cut verges in late summer. That load arrives in bursts tied to the calendar rather than creeping in with the mileage — an element can go from clean to matted in one good week.

Key Features

• One layer of woven polyester, run completely dry — no oil on it, so nothing can reach the sensors
• 80 µm filtration at a flow rate of 5,050 l/m²/sec, Sprint Filter's standard medium for road and track
• Polyester thread from ø 22 microns — that figure is the fibre; the weave sets the aperture
• Debris settles on the face of the cloth, where air can lift it away again, not deep in a pulp mat
• Sits in the standard airbox in the paper panel's place; ducting and factory fuelling are left alone
• Measured retention of 93.13 % on 100-micron particles, against 76.42 % for four-layer oiled cotton

What the season puts into the airbox

An all-rounder gets used for everything, and each use brings its own debris. Sunday miles at speed add insects, and a big half-faired machine gathers them at a rate a slower bike never sees. Spring adds pollen, fine enough to bridge across a filter face. None of it announces itself: a bike that was fine in April can be pulling through a matted element by mid-June, having covered no unusual distance. That is the argument for a part you look at rather than one you replace on a date.

Why a woven face suits that load

Woven polyester loads on its surface, where the dirt stays visible — which makes the inspection worth doing and compressed air an effective way of undoing it: a mat of pollen or insect residue lifts off instead of being pressed deeper in, as with paper. A drop-in element does not make a standard CBF1000F noticeably quicker; what it gives is an intake resistance that starts low and, being restorable, stays near that level across the interval. For consistently dusty roads the finer Sprint Filter media are the honest alternative — but finer means more retention and less flow. A trade, not a ranking.

Care and cleaning

Most of the time the CM96S needs nothing but compressed air, directed at the clean face so the dirt leaves the way it came in. After a wet or grubby spell, wash it in lukewarm water with a little mild washing-up liquid and rinse until it runs clear. Then let it dry in open air in its own time — no hairdryer, no radiator, no flame near it, because heat destroys the polyester. It goes back in dry and untreated. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab; the guarantee lasts two years.

Fitment & Compatibility

Cut for the airbox of the Honda CBF1000F built from 2010 to 2015. Two machines share this element: the half-faired CBF and the naked CB1000R of 2008 to 2017. Both are listed in the Fitment tab.