BMW Titan Motorcycle Concept Uncrate

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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a demand from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by a 750 cc area valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless 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 following 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. These were fitted with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios through which all and invert gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 greatly utilized 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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