BMW R75/5 Café Racer Bike EXIF

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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a request from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was motivated with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and change gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. 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 broadly used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the make of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly ruined 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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