The BMW R75 is a World Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo made by the German company BMW.
Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a submission from the German Army.
Preproduction types of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc aspect valve engine, which 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 product. This OHV engine later proved to be the foundation for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.
The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road items ratios through which all four and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 widely employed by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making 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. In addition they decided that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 units, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.
Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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