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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a variety of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a demand from the German Army.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was motivated with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were fitted with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road products ratios through which all and reverse gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable 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 greatly 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 creating 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. In addition they 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, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly broken by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 devices were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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