BMW R75/6 in Bol D39;Or Red

The BMW R75 is a World Warfare II-era motorcycle and sidecar combination made 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 started in respond to a get from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered by the 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit later became 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 trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all four and change gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. Additional 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 widely 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making 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. In addition they decided that the manufacture of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so badly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 units were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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