$500,000 for a second hand bike

[Tim]

One careful owner...

Damien Hirst finished the bike and Lance Armstreong finished the TdF on it. The bike sold for $500,000 at auction.

Update: Link to details of the bike:
Damien Hirst | The Bikes of Stages | Trek Bikes

[Charlotte]

Real butterflies? 

Ewwww. 

I do think that Damian Hirst is now in very real danger of disappearing up his own arse.

[Riggers]

I'm with Charlotte on that one.

An alternative paint-job could be snake skin! Ooooohhh, that would be  something wouldn't it?

Or I wonder if any chap has had his, well, old 'chap' tattooed like a snake skin?

[Regulator]

I'm with Charlotte on that one.

An alternative paint-job could be snake skin! Ooooohhh, that would be  something wouldn't it?

Or I wonder if any chap has had his, well, old 'chap' tattooed like a snake skin?

I can give you a link to the relevant web-site.... 

[Wendy]

Real butterflies? 

Ewwww. 

I do think that Damian Hirst is now in very real danger of disappearing up his own arse.

+1

That's what I thought when I heard that during the actual tour.

[Charlotte]

Plz not to post that picture of the bloke with an all-over groinal/todger tattoo.  Or else we're going to need a whole herd of unicorns again.

[Regulator]

Hirst, like many of the YBA's, is a talent-lacking, overhyped hack.

The whole YBA scene/adulation almost drove me into the arms of the Stuckists.

[Zipperhead]

The whole YBA scene/adulation almost drove me into the arms of the Suckists.

FTFY

[clarion]

Real butterflies? 

Ewwww. 

I do think that Damian Hirst is now in very real danger of disappearing up his own arse.

I thought he'd done that years ago, and was emerging at the other end.

Vile thing.  ISTR Sheryl Crow had views about killing animals.  I hope she'd have told Lance not to do it.

[Regulator]

The whole YBA scene/adulation almost drove me into the arms of the Suckists.

FTFY

I don't need driving for that, sweetie.... 

[tiermat]

Real butterflies? 

Ewwww. 

I do think that Damian Hirst is now in very real danger of disappearing up his own arse.

I thought he'd done that years ago, and was emerging at the other end.

Vile thing.  ISTR Sheryl Crow had views about killing animals.  I hope she'd have told Lance not to do it.

Doubtful he would have listened, them no longer being an item 'an all

[clarion]

I know.  I was saying that, if they were, he'd likely have been warned off doing something so <insert adjective of choice here>

[nuttycyclist]

Plz not to post that picture of the bloke with an all-over groinal/todger tattoo.  Or else we're going to need a whole herd of unicorns again.

Here ya go 

(click to show/hide)

No, sorry, I can't bring myself to hunt it out and post it 

[seventytwo]

The page loaded for me in a non-maximised window so it cut his name to just show 'Dam Hirst'.  Sounds about right.