Bmw R75 Sahara 1943 Picture

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

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

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 unit. This OHV engine unit later became the foundation for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were installed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios through which all 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated 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 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 each year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 models were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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