1972 BMW R75/5: a 39;Traditional Custom39; Bike EXIF

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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a need from the German Army.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios by which all and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. 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 greatly used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated 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 manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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