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The BMW R75 is a World Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar mixture produced by the German company BMW.

In the 1930s BMW were creating a number of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a get from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were power with a 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios by which all and invert gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both extensively utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time of evaluation it became clear that the Z?ndapp was the superior machine. In August 1942 Z?ndapp and BMW, on the urging of the Army, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the production of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach stock was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 models were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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