1971 BMW R75 / 5 Cafe Racer way2speed

The BMW R75 is a global Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar combination made by the German company BMW.

In the 1930s BMW were producing a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a need from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered by a 750 cc area valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was motivated with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios through which all four and invert gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. Additional 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 widely employed 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making 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. They also arranged that the production of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly ruined by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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