The BMW R75 is a World War II-era motorcycle and sidecar mixture made by the German company BMW.
In the 1930s BMW were producing a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a request from the German Military.
Preproduction models of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was predicated 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 proved to be the foundation for following 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. They were equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios through which all and invert gears worked. 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 own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up 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. They also agreed that the make of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 systems, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 every year.
Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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