BMW R75 Motorrad 750cc. 1. SSDivision Liebstandarte 18000 19411944

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

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

Preproduction models of the R75 were run by the 750 cc side valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit later proved to be the basis for succeeding 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. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all and reverse gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. Additional 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 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 developing 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 arranged that the make of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach factory was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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