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

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a number of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a need from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by a 750 cc area valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine unit. Nonetheless it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 unit. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the basis for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were installed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios through which all and invert gears worked. 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both generally 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating 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 produce of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 devices, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 systems were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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