BMW R75 Sidecar Combination

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

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

Preproduction models of the R75 were power with a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit later proved to be the basis for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was motivated with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding equipped with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios by which all and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely employed 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), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the make of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 products, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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