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

In the 1930s BMW were creating a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a need from the German Military.

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

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road items ratios by which all and reverse gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. A few other 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 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 upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing 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. They also agreed that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 items, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly broken by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. An additional 98 models were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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