BMW R75 solo, metal / Germangray with license plates in the WH

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a question from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 product. This OHV engine later became the foundation for subsequent 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 rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were equipped with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios through which all four and reverse gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most areas. 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 greatly used 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 making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also 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, making 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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