BMW R75 from 1943, Oldtimer Garage

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

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

Preproduction types of the R75 were run by a 750 cc aspect valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were fitted with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road equipment ratios through which all four and change gears worked. 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 greatly used by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period of analysis 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 making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the produce of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 systems, 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 stock was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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