BMW R75 With Sidecar

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a volume of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a get from the German Army.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all and reverse gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. A few other 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 greatly 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 Army, agreed after 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. They also agreed that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 units, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 items were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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