The BMW R75 is a global Conflict II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend made by the German company BMW.
In the 1930s BMW were producing a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a question 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 motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 device. This OHV engine later proved to be the basis for following 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 trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios through which all four and reverse gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. A few other 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 used 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 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 arranged that the make of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 products, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.
Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so badly broken 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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