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The BMW R75 is a World Warfare II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend made by the German company BMW.

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a range of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a need from the German Military.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was motivated with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all four and reverse 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely 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 setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the make of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 products, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 devices were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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