BMW R1200R 2011 BMW Motorcycle Magazine

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in respond to a get from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later became the basis for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road items ratios through which all and change gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly employed 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 (selected the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 systems, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 devices were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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