First eMoto to the Summit: Jarvis and the Jarv-E Go 12th at Sea to Sky

Six-time Sea to Sky winner Graham Jarvis returned to Türkiye on the Jarv-E and finished 12th overall — the first electric bike to complete the event.

Graham Jarvis has won the Sea to Sky Hard Enduro six times. This year he went back to Kemer, Türkiye, on the electric Jarv-E, and finished 12th overall — the first electric bike to complete the event.

Riding the Jarv-E, his own-brand electric hard enduro machine, the 51-year-old Englishman completed all three days of round seven of the FIM Hard Enduro World Championship: a qualifying-heat Beach Race on the Mediterranean coastline Thursday, a 40 km Forest Race through the woods around Kemer Friday, and the decisive 64 km Mountain Race to the summit of Mount Olympos (Tahtalı Dağı) on Saturday.

Jarvis and Sea to Sky

Jarvis’s history with this race goes back further than most of the field he was racing against. He’s won it six times outright, including in 2011, 2017 and 2020. When Sea to Sky joined the FIM Hard Enduro World Championship points calendar for the first time in 2024, he finished 2nd overall behind Manuel Lettenbichler; in 2025, 5th. Both of those results were on a conventional enduro bike. This year, the result was further back in the order — 12th — but it was also a first: no electric motorcycle had finished Sea to Sky before.

Jarvis’s weekend

Beach Race (Thursday): Jarvis placed an incredible 3rd in his opening heat — four laps in 8:00.31, 27 seconds behind Mitch Brightmore (GASGAS), who went on to win the race outright. That result sent him through to round two, where he placed 12th on the sand and didn’t advance to the final. Combined across both rounds, he finished 21st overall.

Forest Race (Friday): Again running with the world’s best, Jarvis finished 6th, in 1:49:29.43, 4 minutes 27 seconds behind winner Teodor Kabakchiev (Sherco). The top six were covered by the same margin — a tightly packed field on a technical course whose longest sector, a 7.1 km run between checkpoints four and five, decided much of the running order.

Mountain Race (Saturday) — the overall result: Jarvis reached all 16 checkpoints inside the seven-hour limit to finish 12th overall, in the Gold finisher class, 1 hour 5 minutes 46 seconds behind race winner Manuel Lettenbichler (KTM).

At the finish, Jarvis said: “I just got tired basically and just wanted to get to the finish. But we did the job. The first electric bike to finish, that was the goal. We learn so much every race and not sure if I’m getting better or the bike is getting better. We were mixing it with professionals and everyone is getting better.”

Overall race results

Lettenbichler’s win came after the roughest two days of his weekend: fifth in the Beach Race, then a brake issue in the Forest Race dropped him from a top-five time to 15th once a 10-minute penalty was applied. He started the Mountain Race from the third row, worked through the field, and pulled clear of Kabakchiev late to win in 3:40:01.78 — a result that stretches his championship lead with one round to go.

Lettenbichler said: “I really wanted that victory today, but I wasn’t quite sure how it would go. I felt like I needed to get my ‘inner-dog’ out and give it my all. Overall, it’s been an up-and-down event for me. Fifth in the Beach Race, but then having some brake issues in the Forest Race and getting a time penalty put me back to 15th. But throughout all of that, I knew I felt good on the bike and that I just needed to put myself into a good position early on in the Mountain Race. From the third row, I had to push hard. With a good start, I focused on working my way forward as best as I could. When I got into the lead, I rode with Teo for a bit before pulling away. I’m stoked with the win and also strengthening my position in the championship with just one round to go.”

Mountain Race, top 12 (Gold class)

Results: raceresult.com (official timing).

Standings with one round to go

On provisional points, Lettenbichler leads the championship with 177 points after seven of eight rounds, ahead of Mitch Brightmore (139) and Kabakchiev (124). He can clinch a fifth consecutive world title — his sixth overall — at the season finale, Hixpania Hard Enduro in Spain, 23–25 October.

Sources: raceresult.com (official timing); KTM Factory Racing release, 10 October 2026; FIM-Hard Enduro World Championship (Facebook), 10 October 2026. Checked 11 October 2026.