Blitz BMW R75/5 Bobber

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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a volume of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a demand from the German Military.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were built in with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and change gears proved helpful. 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 broadly 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing 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 agreed that the produce 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, making 20,000 every year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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