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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a number of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a get from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven by a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. This OHV engine later became the basis 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. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios through which all and change gears did the trick. 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both generally used 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 (designated the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 devices were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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