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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a demand from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered by a 750 cc area valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine unit later proved to be 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 connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fitted with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road equipment ratios by which all and reverse gears worked. 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 generally employed 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 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 decided that the production of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 products, and from then on 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 was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so terribly ruined by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 units were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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