Kevin Dew, Christian Martin and Daniel Webber are contesting a bikie meet-up charge

Three bikies, who police allege were “wearing colours” and drove off in the same direction, said that their meet-up at a service station was purely accidental.

Three alleged bikies are contesting their meet-up at a service station was planned, saying they had just run into each other there, a court has heard.

The Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday heard that Kevin Howard Dew, 57, Christian Alan Martin, 44, and 26-year-old Daniel Luke Webber’s alleged meet-up was a “chance encounter”.

Craig Caldicott, for Dew, said Dew, of Craigmore, would be pleading guilty to possessing a prohibited weapon and ammunition but would be contesting the charge of being present with two or more criminal organisation participants.

“Two of them come to a service station, the third one rocks up,” Mr Caldicott said.

“They go into where they have to pay for the fuel and apparently it looks like there’s some exchange of some verbal conversation.

“They go outside … and then they get on the bikes – one goes one way and the other two goes another.”

Mr Caldicott told the court that if they immediately left the service station after seeing each other, they would have committed an offence by not paying for their fuel.

Stacey Carter for Martin, of Elizabeth East and Webber, of Salisbury East, told the court they would also be contesting the charge.

A police prosecutor told the court that the three men were allegedly engaging in conversation in and outside the service station.

“From memory last time, it was a little bit more – they’ve got colours on too,” the police prosecutor said.

“They’ve all gone in the same direction … it appears the bikes have stopped and waited for the next one.”

The court heard there was also a dispute about whether one of the men was an OMCG member.

Magistrate Simon Smart asked whether there was a defence under the legislation for chance encounters.

“I would have thought the legislation isn’t intending to capture accidental encounters, as opposed to deliberate association,” he said.

Mr Smart adjourned the case until next week, with the trial in July.