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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a demand from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios by which all and invert gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. 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 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 creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when 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 cease once production come to 20,200 devices, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 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 destroyed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 devices were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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