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

Within the 1930s BMW were creating a amount of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a request from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were driven by the 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were fixed with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road equipment ratios by which all and change 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 after a period 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 setting up 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. In addition they decided that the production of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 models, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the focus on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly harmed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 products were constructed by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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