BMW R75/6 Colour Schemes

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a volume of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a need from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven by way of a 750 cc side valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 device. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were built in with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and invert gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 employed 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing 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. In addition they decided that the produce of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 items, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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