Blitz BMW R75/5 Bobber

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

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

Preproduction types of the R75 were power by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine motor. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. 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 motivated with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all four and change gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. Additional 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 utilized 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building 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. They also decided that the make of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 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 damaged by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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