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

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

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven with a 750 cc part valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. This OHV engine later became the foundation for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was motivated with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fitted with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all and reverse gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 widely utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building 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 decided that the production of the R75 would stop 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 goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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