A Comanchero has pleaded guilty to a charge of affray after becoming involved in a bikie-on-bikie scuffle at the Southern Cross Club in Woden earlier this year.
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Palei Maifelemi, 25, on Wednesday admitted his role in the incident, in which surveillance footage showed a beer poured onto a table and a lemon flung across the room.
Another alleged Comanchero, Jaymie Turner, 29, has also pleaded guilty to affray.
But a hearing due to start this week over the alleged involvement of four other members - including commander 47-year-old Pitasoni Uluvalu - has been pushed back months.
And a seventh and the alleged sergeant-at-arms of the group will be handed over to border force officers and deported after prosecutors withdrew all the charges against him.
Maifelemi and Turner had been due to face a hearing in the ACT Magistrates Court this week but its progress stalled when lawyers for two of their co-accused suddenly withdrew.
The court also heard some five witnesses from rival gang the Nomads had either avoided or not responded to subpoenas to come to court to give evidence.
Warrants had been issued but by Wednesday police had only managed to round up and arrest two.
Court documents tendered on an earlier occasion said one of the Nomads complained of a broken nose after someone laid "four f---in cracks on him".
Maifelemi and Turner are listed for sentence in December.
The hearing has been adjourned to next year.
Prosecutors withdrew all charges against the seventh accused, Sosefo Kauvaka Tu'uta Katoa, 25, who is in custody in the ACT on charges of affray, assault and bomb-making.
The court heard Katoa, the Canberra chapter's sergeatn-at-arms, will be released into the custody of border force officers and will be deported.
Also on Wednesday, Magistrate Louise Taylor refused to change the accuseds' bail conditions to include a list of Comanchero associates who were not present at the alleged affray.
Lawyers for the group had said many of them already lived and worked together.
There had been only one or two instances of very minor offending by a couple of members of the group since January.
The lawyers said it was an attempt by police to curtail the association of alleged bikie gang associates in circumstances where the ACT does not have anti-consorting laws.
