This BMW motorcycle balances itself

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a number of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a question from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven by the 750 cc side valve engine, that was predicated 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 proved to be 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 street and off-road products ratios by which all four and change gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified 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 manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 devices were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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