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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a variety of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a get from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc part valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor 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 third side-car wheel was motivated with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were fixed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road items ratios by which all four and invert gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. 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 broadly utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time 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 developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), when 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 stop once production reached 20,200 products, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach stock was so badly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 devices were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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