The facts.
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An X-Cape 650 is bought to cover distance, usually with luggage on the racks and often with a passenger, and that changes what an air filter has to be good at. A test ride tells you nothing about it. What matters is the condition of the element in the last thousand kilometres before the next service, after weeks of motorway, mountain passes and the odd gravel road, and whether the engine is still breathing through the resistance it started with. That is the job the Sprint Filter P08 is built for.
Key Features
- A single layer of dry woven polyester, rated at 80 µm, with fibres from 22 µm in diameter
- 5,050 l/m²/sec of rated flow through clean material
- Holds back 93.13 % of 100-micron particles; four-layer oiled cotton manages 76.42 % in the same comparison
- Roughly twice the filtering area of other performance filters, so collected dirt lies thinner
- Takes the paper panel's place in the unmodified X-Cape 650 airbox, with no remap
- Never oiled, washed and reused, backed by a two-year warranty
Judged over an interval, not a ride
A paper panel starts each service interval clean and ends it loaded, and the engine breathes through a slowly rising restriction the whole way. The P08 does not abolish that curve, since any filter holds what it stops, but the doubled surface spreads the load and the element is cleaned back to its starting condition instead of being thrown away. On a travel bike that spends long days at a constant throttle, that steadiness is the honest benefit. It is not extra power: no element in a standard airbox makes a series X-Cape stronger, and any text that promises otherwise is wrong.
When the route leaves the tarmac for days
Sprint Filter lists one other medium for the X-Cape 650, the T12, a nonwoven that filters down to 7 µm. It is the element for trips on which dust is the main condition for days at a time: desert tracks, dry gravel in high summer, riding in another bike's cloud. It pays for that in flow, 560 l/m²/sec against 5,050. For a rider whose X-Cape mostly sees roads with the occasional unpaved stretch, the P08 is the right element. For an expedition whose route is mostly dust it is the wrong one, and the T12 should go in before the trip.
Care and cleaning
Take SM297S out at each service and blow compressed air through it from the clean side, the face towards the engine, outwards. If the weave is greasy or caked after a wet gravel road, wash it in lukewarm water with a mild detergent and rinse until the water runs clear. Let it dry at room temperature in moving air, never on a radiator, with a heat gun or near a flame, and refit it dry with no oil or spray. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
For the Moto Morini X-Cape 650 of the 2023 and 2024 model years. Sprint Filter lists the same SM297S for five machines in all: this one, the X-Cape 700 of 2025–2026, the Seiemmezzo STR and SCR, and the Calibro / Calibro Bagger. The Fitment tab has the full list.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Moto Morini X-Cape 650 (2023–2024)
- Moto Morini X-Cape 700 (2025–2026)
- Moto Morini Seiemmezzo STR (2023–2024)
- Moto Morini Seiemmezzo SCR (2023–2026)
- Moto Morini Calibro / Calibro Bagger (2025–2026)
- Moto Morini Calibro 700 (2025–2026) · own page →
- Moto Morini Calibro Bagger 700 (2025–2026) · own page →
- Moto Morini Seiemmezzo SCR 650 (2023–2026) · own page →
- Moto Morini Seiemmezzo STR 650 (2023–2024) · own page →
- Moto Morini X-Cape 700 (2025–2026) · own page →
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