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 were only available in reaction to a need from the German Military.
Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by a 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. This OHV engine 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 driven with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and reverse gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. A few other 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 generally utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building 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 decided that the produce of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 products, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.
Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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