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

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

Preproduction types of the R75 were run with a 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor 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 influenced with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were installed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios by which all four and invert gears performed. 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 own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the produce of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

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

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