The owners of a Portland bikini coffee shop were arrested Monday following a fight with several cyclists that injured two, police say.

Jon Elston and Amanda Ingles, owners of the Hot Bikini Brew coffee shop on Southeast 7th Avenue and Madison Street, were booked in jail Monday after a fight erupted outside their coffee stall. They were released the same day. Elston is charged with second-degree criminal mischief and two counts of fourth-degree assault. Ingles faces one count of second-degree criminal mischief and one of harassment.

Court documents filed Tuesday show that Elston is charged with assaulting Tyler Harris and Dawnna Wilder, and both he and Ingles are charged with damaging Harris and Wilder’s property.

The couple don’t deny they got in a fight with cyclists. But Elston told The Oregonian/OregonLive the cyclists came at them first, and that clashes between cyclists and drivers are common on the road in front of the shop.

Lt. Tina Jones told The Oregonian/OregonLive that Elston and Ingles were driving south on Southeast 6th Avenue, and Elston yelled aggressively at a cyclist. Jones said another cyclist yelled at Elston, who got out of his car carrying a hammer and approached the cyclist. Jones said Elston dropped the hammer amid a struggle, but then allegedly punched the victim. The man’s glasses got smashed and he had a facial injury that Jones said required stitches.

Jones said other cyclists joined in the fight, and Ingles knocked a woman’s phone out of her hand. She said Elston then punched that woman and knocked her unconscious. Ingles fled the scene in her vehicle, and officers later arrested Ingles and Elston.

Ingles said Elston was carrying a hammer because he was boarding up a broken window. When the fight broke out, Elston said he and Ingles were waiting for police to show up and investigate a burglary at the shop. He said while they were waiting, a cyclist cut in front of them from the bike lane without signaling first. Elston said he yelled out the window at the cyclist.

“I yelled, ‘you’re not a (expletive) car,’” Elston said in a Wednesday phone call with The Oregonian/OregonLive. That cyclist, he said, ignored him and kept riding. But Elston said another biker appeared to hear him and get angry, and dropped his bike in the parking lot of the coffee shop. He said the cyclist came toward him.

Jones said another cyclist yelled at Elston to leave the first bicyclist alone, and a struggle ensued, as other cyclists intervened to break up the fight.

Elston said another cyclist, a woman, tried to film him and he smacked the phone out of her hand.

Elston said on Wednesday night that they had already been planning to move from that location because they’d had too many problems with theft.

“We’ve been broken into five times,” he said.

As of Friday morning, the shop was gone from the Southeast 7th and Madison location, which Ingles said they had decided on Monday morning before the incident. Elston and Ingles did not immediately respond to request for comment about if and when it would reopen.

Elston said he has hired a lawyer and plans to fight the charges.

Court documents show that Hot Bikini Brew was sued by a former employee in 2016 who said she was fired from her job as a barista after she made an Occupational Safety and Health Administration complaint against the coffee shop. A judge dismissed the case in 2018.