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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 amount of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a demand from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were driven by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential 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 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 rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios by which all and change 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 competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both extensively utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 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. They also decided that the make 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 every year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach factory was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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