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The BMW R75 is a World Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo made by the German company BMW.

In the 1930s BMW were producing a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a demand from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. This OHV engine later became the foundation for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road items ratios by which all and change gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time of analysis 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they agreed that the manufacture of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly harmed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 items were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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