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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in respond to a need from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc part valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 product. This OHV engine motor later became the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was motivated with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were installed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road products ratios through 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 broadly utilized 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 Army, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making 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 arranged that the production of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 items, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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