BMW R75 from 1943, Oldtimer Garage

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a get from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven by way of a 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later became the foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road equipment ratios through which all and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. Additional 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 greatly 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the production of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 systems, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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