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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 need from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. This OHV engine motor later became the basis for succeeding 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 installed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios by which all four and reverse gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. A few other 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 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 developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the produce of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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