The BMW R75 is a World War II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend produced by the German company BMW.
In the 1930s BMW were producing a volume of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a need from the German Military.
Preproduction types of the R75 were driven by a 750 cc part valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine. However 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 third side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were fixed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios by which all and change gears worked. 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 competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly used 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 upon 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 manufacture of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 products, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.
Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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