BMW R75/6 by Maria Motorcycles Bike EXIF

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a range of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a get from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven by the 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine later became the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road items ratios by which all and change gears performed. 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 rival 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 units, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 devices were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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