The facts.
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The Thruxton TFC was a numbered, short-run Triumph Factory Custom, and machines like this age differently from the rest of the range. They are ridden carefully and not very far, they spend long spells standing in a garage, and their value rests partly on a service history with no gaps in it. None of that is kind to an air filter. A cellulose element takes up moisture while the bike is parked and softens with it, so the part quietly leaves its original condition without a single kilometre being added. The Sprint Filter PM217S does not: dry woven polyester neither absorbs nor swells, and it is washed rather than replaced.
Key Features
- Long spells in storage change nothing: the polyester is dry and does not take up moisture
- Never oiled, so nothing gums up, dries out or migrates downstream while the bike stands
- Filtration of 80 µm, airflow rated 5,050 l/m²/sec — P08, the medium catalogued for road and track
- Carries roughly double the filtering surface of other performance filters
- Slots into the standard airbox as a direct replacement, with nothing modified and nothing remapped
- Two years of warranty follow the date of purchase
Low mileage is its own kind of wear
Service schedules count kilometres because kilometres are easy to count, but a filter ages according to the air that has passed through it and the conditions it has sat in between rides. A motorcycle used for a few hundred dry kilometres a year and stored the rest of the time reaches its service interval by date, not by load. A washable element is inspected, cleaned and refitted, and the question is settled by looking at it.
Correct in ten years' time
Limited-run machines are eventually judged on what was done to them. This is a standard-fitment element in the standard airbox: nothing is cut, nothing is repositioned, the original cover goes back on and the filter can be swapped for a factory part at any point. And because Sprint Filter design the P08 to last the life of the motorcycle, the PM217S is likely to be the only air filter this bike ever needs.
Care and cleaning
Ten minutes with an air line is the whole routine: from the clean side, blown outwards, and the element is back under the cover. After a hard season, wash it in lukewarm water with a mild detergent instead, rinsing until the water runs clear. Drying is done in open air and only in open air — heat and flame are out — and it is refitted dry. There is nothing to oil, before or after. The Downloads tab holds the maintenance sheet.
Fitment & Compatibility
Made for the Triumph Thruxton 1200 TFC, 2019–2021. The same PM217S element covers five machines built around this airbox — the Speed Twin 900 and Speed Twin 1200, and the Thruxton 1200 in R, RS and TFC form. The full list with model years is in the Fitment tab.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Triumph Speed Twin 900 (2023–2026)
- Triumph Speed Twin 1200 (2018–2026)
- Triumph Thruxton 1200 RS (2020–2026)
- Triumph Thruxton 1200 TFC (2019–2021)
- Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (2016–2020)
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