1976 BMW R75 / 6 Motorcycle Motorcycle photo

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a need from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and reverse gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. 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 utilized 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building 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 agreed that the produce of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach stock was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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