1972 BMW R75/5 Classic Motorcycle Pictures

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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in respond to a submission from the German Military.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and reverse gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. A few other 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 greatly utilized 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they arranged that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 systems, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 products were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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