BMW R75/5 Photos

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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a request from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit 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. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios through which all four and change gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable 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 utilized 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they agreed that the manufacture 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, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly broken by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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