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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a variety of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a request from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road items ratios through which all four and reverse gears performed. 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 competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly 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 building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they agreed that the make of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 models, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach factory was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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