BMW R75 Rick Law

The BMW R75 is a global Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar mixture produced by the German company BMW.

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a volume of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a need from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were fitted with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios through which all four and invert gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity 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 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building 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. In addition they decided that the manufacture of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 items, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach factory was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 devices were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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