Bmw R75 Sahara 1943 Picture

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

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

Preproduction models of the R75 were run with a 750 cc area valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios through which all four and change gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. Additional 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 greatly used 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 making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they arranged that the production of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 items, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 items were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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