Lionroar BMW R75 Motorcycle Military Kit

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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a get from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were power by a 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine motor. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 unit. This OHV engine later became the basis for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were fitted with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and change gears proved helpful. 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 own 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 making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated 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 come to 20,200 items, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so badly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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