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The BMW R75 is a global Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar mixture produced by the German company BMW.

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a get from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios through which all and reverse gears performed. 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 competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both extensively 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 building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also decided that the manufacture of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 models, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach stock was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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