1972 BMW R75 Classic Motorcycle Pictures

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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a get from the German Military.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road items ratios through which all four and reverse gears proved helpful. 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 own competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely employed 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making 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. In addition they arranged that the produce of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 systems, 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 until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 units were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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