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

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

Preproduction models of the R75 were power by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. 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 powered with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road products ratios by which all four and invert gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. Additional 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 generally used 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the produce of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 products, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 models were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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