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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a volume of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a question from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were power by a 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 device. This OHV engine motor later became the basis for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road items ratios by which all four and invert gears did the trick. 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 greatly used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period of analysis 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), in which 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 come to 20,200 models, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 every year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 devices were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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