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

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

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven with a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for succeeding 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 installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios through which all four and reverse gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly employed 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when 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 reached 20,200 models, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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