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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a get from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine motor. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine 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 powered with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were fitted with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios by which all and invert gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. 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 extensively employed 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 creating 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. They also decided that the produce of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so terribly 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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