If you’re only heading out for an hour’s spin then you don’t need to refuel — you should have enough stored energy to comfortably last your ride. Anything longer than this…

Does this little lot sound familiar? No ride is without its pitfalls but here's our guide to a what seemingly every MTB ride out on the trails entails.

Rob Warner hung up his handlebars from competitive racing in 2006 and as far as everyone was concerned that would probably be the last we saw from the motor-mouthed commentator between…