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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a need from the German Military.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was motivated with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were fixed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios by which all and invert gears worked. 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both generally employed 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 Army, agreed after 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. In addition they decided that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 devices were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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