Bmw r75 Sixth Army Group

The BMW R75 is a global War II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo produced by the German company BMW.

In the 1930s BMW were producing a volume of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a submission from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were power by the 750 cc part valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 unit. This OHV engine motor later became 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 linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road items ratios by which all four and invert gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up 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 arranged that the production of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 units, and after that 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 had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach stock was so badly broken by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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