BMW G650GS 2011 – BMW Motorcycle Magazine

The BMW R75 is a global Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend produced by the German company BMW.

In the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a need from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were power by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine motor 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 powered with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road items ratios through which all four and reverse gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. 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 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), when 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 cease once production reached 20,200 systems, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach stock was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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