A man who was caught sticking flyers on hundreds of shared bikes in eastern China has opted to undo his handiwork rather than pay a fine.

After a court in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, fined the unnamed man 1,500 yuan ($210) for pasting ads on blue Hellobikes throughout the city, the shared-bike company offered to accept restitution in lieu of money, according to a report Friday by China News Service. The same day, a staff member from the company supervised the man as he removed illegal flyers from 200 of the company’s bikes.

The man — who told the authorities he earned just 0.01 yuan per ad and admitted to having pasted hundreds on the day he was caught in February — had already been fined 400 yuan by the Hefei Urban Administrative Bureau.

Shared bikes have become popular targets for illegal ads. Last August, a Shanghai court ordered a business that had pasted flyers promoting car seat covers and hotel apps on Mobikes to pay the shared-bike company 100,000 yuan, in the country’s first judicial ruling involving such ads. (Image: China News Service)