BMW R60/6 R75/6 R90/6 1975 1976 PROSPERO39;S GARAGE

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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a volume 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 driven by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 device. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was influenced with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were built in with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios by which all four and reverse gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. Additional 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 broadly 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing 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 manufacture of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 units, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 units were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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