The BMW R75 is a World Warfare 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 were only available in respond to a submission from the German Army.
Preproduction types of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc part valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.
The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios by which all four and change gears did the trick. 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 competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly 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 upon 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 cease once production reached 20,200 products, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.
Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach stock was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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