To Hell's Gate and Back: The Life and Extreme Times of an Off-road Motorcyclist

To Hell's Gate and Back: The Life and Extreme Times of an Off-road Motorcyclist by Jarvis, Graham. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781474612845.

Graham Jarvis has been at the top of off-road motorcycling for the best part of twenty-five years and has competed in hundreds of competitions and races all over the world, from TVs Junior Kickstart in the early 1990s to the fabled and ridiculously perilous two-day Italian event Hells Gate, which he has dominated in recent years and which is one of motorsports most feared events. Having excelled at Trials and Enduro, Graham moved into the high-octane world of Extreme Enduro, one of the most exhilarating sports on two wheels, in 2011. Since then, he has won Extreme Enduros five major competitions -the Erzberg Rodeo, the Red Bull Sea to Sky, the Red Bull Romaniacs, the Tough One and the chilling Hells Gate - no fewer than twenty-five times, making him one of motorsports most successful riders. In To Hells Gate and Back, Graham will take us from his early years in Canterbury, where he started out on an old BMX bike that his dad had rescued from the tip, to competing against up to 1,800 riders in races where dozens are often airlifted to hospital, and only three or four finish . . . with Graham usually at the head of the field. It is a story of dedication, skill and, above all, an extreme passion for off-road motorcycling.