The BMW R75 is a World Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend made by the German company BMW.
In the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a need from the German Military.
Preproduction types of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc side valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine unit later became 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 rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and reverse gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 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 building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they agreed that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 devices, and from then on 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 remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 units were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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