JImmy Decotis

Jimmy regularly raced with a mod that viciously padded the humiliation of his competitors – his welded double footpegs. You see, Jimmy was so short that he needed a set of footpegs welded on top of his bike’s actual footpegs, of course along with modified brake and shift levers, so his tiny legs could reach. What’s more, he regularly won with that set-up all the way up to the big bikes. Picture racing 450B and getting passed by a kid who’d get cut from a 5th grade basketball team. Now you know what it was like to race Jimmy Decotis in the early 2000s. After several top 10 amateur national showings, his was a name of mythical lore in New England motocross.