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

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

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine motor later became the foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was powered with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were built in with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road products ratios through which all and change 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 competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely utilized 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 Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also decided that the manufacture of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach stock was so terribly harmed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 models were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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