BMW R69S ‘Thompson’ Motorcycle – Men39;s Gear

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

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a request from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine later became the foundation for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were equipped with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road items ratios by which all four and invert gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its 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 Army, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), in which 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 cease once production come to 20,200 items, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

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

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