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

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

Preproduction types of the R75 were driven by way of a 750 cc part valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. 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 powered with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios through which all and invert gears functioned. 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both extensively 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up 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 agreed that the production of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach stock was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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