Hello and welcome to this issue of SidecarNews.

Truly Yours SidecarNews - Editor Peter Lohré

Victory Side Ball: A brilliant new combination by Iwan-Bikes of Pfaffenhofen, Germany. Bernhard Peintner's latest baby took to the street. We were out to shoot pictures on Bavarian back roads. See how this thrilling Power-Cruiser-combination performed.

In 2012 Watsonian is going to celebrate it's 100 years anniversary. Very rarely these days companies survive the hazzards of one hundred years of existence let alone a company producing in the motorcycle sidecar industry. 18th & 19th August 2012 is the weekend to note in your diaries Ladies and Gentlemen. Venue is going to be the well known exhibition centre at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, England. The companies agent in Japan plans a rally to the event, travelling from around the globe to be there in time for the festivity. Watsonians themselves will introduce a jubilee model for the centinary, based on the long selling sidecar model GP.

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