arly in the new year, the whole Bayliss family – Stan, his wife Tess, and Steve, decamped to Britain for the 1976 season. Rather than take their existing sidecars, Stan and Steve decided to order new ones to be built in Britain by Malcolm Aldrich with Honda engines. “They were heaps of junk,” says Steve. “At our first meeting at Mallory the bikes just fell apart, they were rubbish, so I bought Mac Hobson’s Windle. We took the two British Honda outfits to Paddy Lynch in the Midlands and he completely rebuilt them with TZ Yamaha engines, changed all the front ends and they weren’t too bad after that. Stan rode one of them for a while and then bought a later model Windle off Dick Greasley – the sister bike to the one George O’Dell won the World title on – and I’ve still got that bike. We went to see Terry Windle and tried to get him to build
