BMW R75/5 courtesy of Jeff Dean

The BMW R75 is a World Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar combination produced 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 submission from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered by way of a 750 cc side valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine motor later became the foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios through which all and reverse gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. Additional 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 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 Army, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up 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 decided that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 items, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach stock was so terribly destroyed 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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