BMW R75 with Sidecar Team MModel 35014

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a number of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a question from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were power by way of a 750 cc aspect valve engine, that 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 later became the basis for subsequent 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 trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road products ratios through which all four and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. Additional 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 used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 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. In addition they agreed that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 systems, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly destroyed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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