BMW Custom French Motorcycles Retro

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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a demand from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. 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 became the basis for succeeding 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. They were equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios by which all 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 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen 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 make of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so terribly destroyed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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