I was riding around gt today, and waiting for me brother and mate to catch up in one of the fire road bits. Three lads already there, gave them a nod and ‘alright’ as I pulled up. One lad was working on his bike, the other two seemed to be talking, nowt unusual. As the last of my group arrive one of the two talkers lobs his bike to the deck a wads into the other, full on, a few punches, a bit of grappling and some kicks; and dumps him into ditch at the side of the fire road. Then the helmets are off more punching, grappling and a tasty headbutt. Their mate keeps trying to intervene, we decide to ride on and leave them to it. Wasn’t really what I was expecting to see on me Friday ride, but entertaining all the same.
Working in a&e, booze seems to drive most fights that I see the result of, and seems to encourage these folk to try and take a lump out of me. But I couldn’t see booze being an issue here, and whilst looking at my own group couldn’t really imagine a situation that would lead me to kick off on one of them that way. So what would someone have to do to you before you got your furious fists flying?

Not get my multitool out of my backback for me. 👿

Bad grammar usually does it for me.

[edit]i have now read the question properly.
Someone would just have to cause me danger in their car when I am riding and I would be fully prepared to have a go.
Realised that this week. How bloody angry I get at that kind of thing.

With a riding mate , there’s nothing I could imagine kicking it off!

Plenty to keep you going there then slimjim 🙂

Bad grammar usually does it for me.

🙄 shakes head

Disagreement over tyre pressures?

Valve alignment problem …..i normally pull a blade out to solve this particular problem

sexual tension.

I think the OP should of had a word seeing as one of them headbutted the other, I mean whats happened to The Marquess of Queensberry rules tut tut!

Probably a disagreement over the effectiveness of marketing I would imagine.

in Biffer Bacon mode, ‘you call my bike a puff?’…….. 😀

One liked Prometheus, the other didn’t. An Angus McBast*rd headbutt was the only proportionate response.

One of the lads had done his missus with a thomson post (31.6)

If you didn’t smile at me after I’d headbutted you I’d probably headbutt you.

Was the bike upside down?

Was it about which way up a bike should be when removing the wheels?

Deep seated grudges, going back generations. Its scotlands secret shame. The headbutter comes from a long line of branding consultants, the headbuttee grew up in a community that reckons they’re immune to that sort of thing.

{edit – didn’t notice that Neal G Lover had beaten me to it}

how old were the offenders..?

when we were spotty kids me and my mates used to really struggle to find things that we considered weren’t worth fighting over..

Probably arguing over who was the greatest prime minister- lord palmerston or pitt the elder

No way would I kick off with any of my proper riding mates … except maybe one who’s a bit of a psycho at times.

Have ridden in groups where the odd bloke is a bit of a c0ck and could well get my goat. Maybe it would take either a series of provocations or perhaps just saying the (exact) wrong thing at the wrong time. Unlikely to get that far, but you never know … sometimes people are just f^&*ing out of order.

when we were spotty kids me and my mates used to really struggle to find things that we considered weren’t worth fighting over..

What, like “You show me yours and I’ll show you mine.”?

Grammar police would earn a headbutt 😉

Best way to make scrambled eggs.

Would have made a good intro to a yootoob vid

Heads and fists only? No Bombers in evidence?

Just a bit of handbags then.

slainte 😛 rob

Jocks! All a bit Franco begbie? 🙂

shakes head

cracks knuckles..

Grammar police would earn a headbutt

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To much Buckie in the camelback

What type of bike was he on so I can stereotype him?

For those requiring additional info; one late 20’s the other mid 30’s, looked a bit ‘freeride’ full face helmets and at least one top with that graffiti style writing, and the real joy was the lad trying to stop them yelling ‘you’re supposed to be brothers’. Didn’t really register the bikes due to it kicking off, other than one hardcore hardtail affair. Helmets came off for round 2 after one of them was getting out of the ditch. I really wasn’t expecting any bother from the way they looked, looked pretty standard mtb’ers, i thought initially they were just having a bit of banter. Headbutt was the most effective blow delivered, with a real dull thud, and there was a decent helmet strike. I would have thought it would have fizzled out and the first round, with the other lad intervening and a trio of strangers there, but no, both looked well willing to ruck. Hence, we moved on, no point in interfering with natural selection. The bike being worked on was upside down, but had both wheels on.

Ah, brothers. Years of pent up resentment!

And I thought it most likely that it was Gove, Clegg, and Cameron sorting out the GCSE debacle…

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So what would someone have to do to you before you got your furious fists flying?

My mum.

Mad bikers disease!?

You turned the other cheek? Couldn’t you have intervened/tried to cool things!

You don’t need to be big and hard.

Bet the tyre logos didn’t line up with the rim logos

Was one on a 29er?

exactly what I was gonna say scapegoat…

The bike being worked on was upside down, but had both wheels on.

29er perhaps !?!?

Its most likely that they were disagreeing over the extent to which Germany should be bailing out the Greeks. In 2008 when our bank bailout was being debated the trails ran rivers of blood. I personally witnessed a gang of QE supporting downhillers running riot at Innerleithen…