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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a request from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were driven by the 750 cc side valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine later became the foundation 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 trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios through which all four and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. A few other 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 broadly 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 (designated the BW 43), in which 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 cease once production come to 20,200 models, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 every year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach factory was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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