The BMW R75 is a World War II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo produced by the German company BMW.
Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a volume of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a get from the German Army.
Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by the 750 cc part valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit later became the basis 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 installed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios through which all and change gears functioned. 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 own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 systems, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.
Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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