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The BMW R75 is a global Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar mixture produced by the German company BMW.

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a volume of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a request from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were power by way of a 750 cc side valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine later proved to be the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all four and reverse gears performed. 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly employed 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 units, and after that 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 was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 items were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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