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The BMW R75 is a World War II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo 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 demand from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by way of a 750 cc aspect valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor 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 driven with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios by which all and change gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. 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 broadly utilized 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 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 arranged that the manufacture of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 items, and from then on 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 was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach factory was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 models were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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