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FILTRON

Precision Air & Oil filtration products.

The first name in foam air filters, keeping air clean since 1963

You’ve heard the saying, “older than dirt.” Well, Filtron filters aren’t that old, but almost. It all started in 1963 – when trailblazer, Dave Ekins, was trying something radically new… a Honda dirt bike.

Remember, back in the day, the top dogs in the dirt were Triumph and Matchless. Big. Brutal. Four-stroke. And heavy. 

They also used paper air filters. Highly restrictive. Not very practical. But in ’63, there were zero alternatives.

So Dave Ekins put his head together with two other like-minded crazy racers – Doug Grey and Jack Krizman. Doug had the brainstorm to use oil-saturated polyurethane foam as a medium to carry oil to filter dust – Jack then designed and patented a corrugated element and started making foam air filters for dirt bikes in his garage.

Overnight success? Nope. It took a lot of hard-riding and race-winning to prove the point.

So JK and Dave tested these “Filtron” foam air filters on their Hondas and they raced. And raced. In cross-country desert races. In enduros. They competed in the '63 500-mile two-day Greenhorn enduro without cleaning or changing a filter. So how’d they go from local So Cal favorite to world famous? One word: motocross.

In ’67, the Euros came to the U.S. to teach us what motocross was all about. When the Euros unloaded their Husky and CZ factory team bikes, they were already outfitted with the new Filtron air filters. The Euros loved the immediate power increase they got from these foam air filters – and us Americans loved this new breed of Euro racers – Joel Robert, Roger DeCoster and Torsten Hallman.   

Well, that’s all it took. After that, anyone who was a serious racer had to have a Filtron.

This new Filtron filters take the original concept and made it even better, providing exceptional filtering properties combined to ease of use.

Filtron – the winning tradition continues!