Flickriver: Photoset 39;BMW R75 Military Motorcycle With sidecar

The BMW R75 is a global Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar mixture made by the German company BMW.

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a submission from the German Army.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fitted with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all and invert gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both extensively used 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making 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. In addition they arranged that the manufacture of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 systems, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.

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

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