Retro Scrambler: A vintage BMW R75/5 from Spain Bike EXIF

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a question from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road products ratios through which all four and change gears worked. 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 broadly employed 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating 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. In addition they decided that the make 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, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 products were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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