Career
Bayton joined the Stourbridge Cycling Club as a boy where, after a year of club rides, he started racing. However, after Spanish rider Jaime Huelamo failed a drug test, he was later moved up to 4th. The pair came to the notice of the Italian media with an epic 100 mile breakaway lasting five hours at the Milan–San Remo race which led to an invitation to the Baracchi Trophy two-up time trial.
Together they finished third behind Felice Grimondi and Martin Rodriguez in front of 50,000 fans in the Brescia football stadium.
Bayton turned down a move to the Belgian-based Watney"s squad in 1974, regretting it by the end of season when he left Raleigh to work at the Russell Hobbs factory in the West Midlands with the intention to retire from pro-racing. However his career was saved by Hugh Porter who convinced him to join him at Bantel with whom he finished 3rd in the national road race.
After Bayton retired from racing, he managed the Everready-Halfords team that on the British professional circuit in the late 1980s.
