Bmw R75 Pictures

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a request from the German Army.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road products ratios by which all four and reverse 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly employed 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 Army, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making 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 agreed that the make of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 products, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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