MOSCOW SEPTEMBER 16: BMW R75 1940 motorcycle at the international

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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a number of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a question from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. Nonetheless 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 foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was motivated with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios by which all and change gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. 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 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating 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. They also decided that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 items, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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