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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a request from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by the 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine motor. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios by which all and change gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. 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 greatly used 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected 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 produce of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 units, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so terribly ruined by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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