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

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

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

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios through which all four and reverse gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating 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. They also agreed that the produce of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 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 badly destroyed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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