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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a question from the German Army.

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

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios by which all and invert gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. A few other 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 widely used 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected 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 cease once production reached 20,200 models, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so terribly ruined by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 devices were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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