The BMW R75 is a World Warfare II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend produced by the German company BMW.
In the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a get from the German Army.
Preproduction types of the R75 were run with a 750 cc part valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for subsequent 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. They were fixed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road items ratios by which all and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 extensively employed 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up 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. They also decided that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 products, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.
Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so terribly ruined by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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