1943 BMW R75 Classic Motorcycle Pictures

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a question from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, which 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 unit. This OHV engine later proved to be the foundation for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios by which all and invert gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely employed 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 setting up 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 produce of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 units, 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 was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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