Murata Boy is a Japanese-designed robot that has the ability to ride a bike. The question: Is he on some performance enhancing drugs?

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Murata Boy is a Japanese-designed robot that has the ability to ride a bike. The question: Is he on some performance enhancing drugs?
An article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asks that very question. In most cases bicyclists share the road with automobiles and bicycle advocacy groups continually ask for money to improve or create separate bike lanes, trails, etc. Should a bicyclist help pay for some of that infrastructure though licensing fees?
P-I reporter Angela Galloway posed the following:
Motorists help pay for roads with gas taxes, tolls and license tabs. Boaters subsidize maritime programs with vessel registration and boat launch fees.
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