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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a volume of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a demand from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine unit later proved to be 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 highway and off-road gear ratios through which all and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely used 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they agreed that the produce of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 items, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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