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The BMW R75 is a global Warfare 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 were only available in response to a question from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven with a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine unit. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 unit. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all and reverse gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both generally employed 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 (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also decided that the make of the R75 would stop 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 aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach factory was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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