CAFÉ RACER 76: WILKINSON BROS BMW R75/6 CAFE RACER

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in respond to a request from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc part valve engine, that was based 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 motor later proved to be the foundation for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was motivated with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were built in with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road equipment ratios through which all four and change gears proved helpful. 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 used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time 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 after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they arranged that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach stock was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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