BMW R75 Gallery

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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a submission from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were run by the 750 cc area valve engine, which was predicated 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 unit 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 influenced with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding built in with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road gear ratios by which all and reverse gears did the trick. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most floors. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly utilized 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually making a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected 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 produce of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 models, 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 until the Eisenach factory was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 products were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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