BMW R75/5 Josh Withers Pipeburn.com

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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a number of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a need from the German Army.

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

The third side-car wheel was motivated with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios through which all four and invert gears worked. 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 own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both generally used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time 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 setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the make of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 items were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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