You know the way it is. Your mates are feeling too fragile from the night before, or they’re doing mind-numbing domestic chores, or they’re drying their hair… whatever the excuse, it’s not always easy to persuade people to come out and have fun on a weekend afternoon.

And when you’ve got to try and organise lots of people to be free at the same time? Forget it.

“When you’ve got to try and organise lots of people to be free at the same time? Forget it.”

OK so we know you can play football with fewer than two full teams, but let’s face it, you need at least 5 a side to have a half decent game.

For a decent mountain biking session, all you need is one mate to be free at the same time as you. Or none – shit, riding by yourself can actually be quite a lot of fun, specially if you get tunes on…