Bmw R75 With Sidecar Image

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a variety of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a question from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven by the 750 cc area valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine later proved to be the foundation for succeeding 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 rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios by which all four and reverse gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. 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 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building 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 arranged that the make of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 systems, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal 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 development ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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