Bogdan Ionescu has received an apology after he was fined for only having one brake (Picture: AFP / DPA / Henning Kaiser)

A one-armed cyclist has received an apology after being fined for riding his bike – with only one hand.

Bogdan Ionescu was hit with the ridiculous €25 (£20) charge because he only had one handbrake on the left side of his bike and no braking mechanism on the right.

He was stopped by police while riding his bike in Cologne, Germany, in March, for an apparent violation of road safety laws.

The theatre box office worker received the penalty notice despite having legally modified his bike so he can control another brake with his foot.


But Mr Ionescu received an apology and had the fine rescinded this week after the story was picked up by local and national media.

‘It’s great news, I’m really happy,’ he told the Kölner Stadtanzeiger newspaper. ‘It’s good that this is how it ends, it’s unbelievably good.’