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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a variety of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a demand from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc area valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine 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 powered with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios by which all four and invert gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. 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 widely 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the make of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 every year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach factory was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 items were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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