The BMW R75 is a global Warfare II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo produced by the German company BMW.
In the 1930s BMW were producing a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a demand from the German Army.
Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 unit. This OHV engine later became the foundation for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.
The 3rd side-car wheel was influenced with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios through which all and reverse gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 generally used 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected 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 manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 products, 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 remained in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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