The BMW R75 is a World Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo 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 were only available in reaction to a request from the German Army.
Preproduction models of the R75 were run by a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 device. This OHV engine later proved to be the foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.
The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios by which all four and change gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. 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 extensively utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building 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 agreed that the produce of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.
Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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