The BMW R75 is a World Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend made by the German company BMW.
Within the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a need from the German Military.
Preproduction models of the R75 were run with a 750 cc side valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine later proved to be the basis 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 equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all and change gears worked well. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. Additional 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 widely utilized 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 (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 production of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 models, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 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 stock was so terribly harmed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.
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