BMW R75 Gallery

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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a question from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were power by a 750 cc part valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine later became the basis for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road items ratios through which all and invert gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. 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 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 setting up 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 agreed that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 systems, 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 continued to be in production before Eisenach factory was so terribly ruined by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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