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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a question from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were driven by way of a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 unit. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the basis 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 rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road items ratios through which all four and reverse gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. 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 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 Army, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also decided that the production of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly destroyed 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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