Armstrong's bikes at Sothebys

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  • rockmount
    rockmount Posts: 761
    emadden wrote:
    Sotheby's have also announced that these fashionable pedals will also be available for the lucky hicks who manage to win one of Lance's "fantastic" bikes (which happen to come without pedals)

    new-vintage-roadster-rubber-pedals.-37-p.jpg
    Are they the ones you haven't figured out yet ?
    .. who said that, internet forum people ?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I know some of you think everything about Armstrong is evil, but this is a great idea. Get famous artists to pain t a frame, ride it and then sell it for charity, for silly prices. Where's the evil in that?

    Now the headline aqct - Damien Hirst's - I think is horrible (and I've never really 'got' Hirst) but Charles Saachi will put fair bit of his fortune towards buying it.

    Some of the frames I quite like.

    Basically, some of you think that Armstrong is the very personification of the devil. He's not. I don't particularly like him, but I can recognise that he can be a pretty decent guy a times.
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  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    RichN95 wrote:
    I know some of you think everything about Armstrong is evil, but this is a great idea. Get famous artists to pain t a frame, ride it and then sell it for charity, for silly prices. Where's the evil in that?

    Now the headline aqct - Damien Hirst's - I think is horrible (and I've never really 'got' Hirst) but Charles Saachi will put fair bit of his fortune towards buying it.

    Some of the frames I quite like.

    Basically, some of you think that Armstrong is the very personification of the devil. He's not. I don't particularly like him, but I can recognise that he can be a pretty decent guy a times.

    Agree. I'm not a fan of LA either, but I get the impression that some posters feel that he is personally responsible for these 'crimes against carbon', whereas if someone doesn't like a particular design, the criticism should be directed to the artist.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Saatchi doesn't buy Hirst's work nowadays. The bike will probably be bought by some overpaid NYC banker with some of his end-of-year bonus.

    It's not even an original idea, but a Fornasetti rip-off:
    http://www.unicahome.com/p24896/fornase ... setti.html
    http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_d ... p?id=70809
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  • The Prodigy
    The Prodigy Posts: 832
    SpaceJunk wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    I know some of you think everything about Armstrong is evil, but this is a great idea. Get famous artists to pain t a frame, ride it and then sell it for charity, for silly prices. Where's the evil in that?

    Now the headline aqct - Damien Hirst's - I think is horrible (and I've never really 'got' Hirst) but Charles Saachi will put fair bit of his fortune towards buying it.

    Some of the frames I quite like.

    Basically, some of you think that Armstrong is the very personification of the devil. He's not. I don't particularly like him, but I can recognise that he can be a pretty decent guy a times.

    Agree. I'm not a fan of LA either, but I get the impression that some posters feel that he is personally responsible for these 'crimes against carbon', whereas if someone doesn't like a particular design, the criticism should be directed to the artist.

    Come on, any opportunity to Lance bash is a good thing. We all know he is personally responsible for all that is wrong in the world. He should be imprisoned for these bikes, criminal, especially in the name of charity, how dare he! :wink:
  • micron
    micron Posts: 1,843
    Virenque regularly auctioned his bikes to raise money for causes in Africa but it doesn't stop him being a winy doper and denier :wink:

    I wouldn't buy them but any money raised for a good cause is just that, however it's raised. I read a great quote the other day about the Ride for the Roses - a cancer survivor said for him it was nothing to do with riding with Lance and everything to do with riding because he could.

    However much Armstrong uses Livestrong to legitimise himself and deflect criticism, the cause itself is a good one.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Since Sotherbys mostly deal in antiques, I would have thought they might have been better off auctioning Armstrong, himself. :P

    Can't you just tell it's the closed season. :(
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    http://velonews.com/article/99669/it-s- ... trong-bike
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    He's into the art world scene in the off-season it seems.

    http://www.wireimage.com/ItemListings.a ... 070&nbc1=1
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  • spanielsson
    spanielsson Posts: 776
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I'm sorry everyone, I'm totally lacking in any class. It doesn't help that I shoot my mouth off, ride cheap budget tat so bad I won't admit to owning and don't get out very often - nothing, not even one of those fantastic Trek's could make me look attractive.

    Is this how the thread should have started?!! :wink:
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    I like the idea that a bicycle can be the canvas for a bit of art.

    Makes a change from red with a black-stripe half way down the top tube.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • Birillo
    Birillo Posts: 417
    Alternatively, if branding, hype and base commercialism (even in the name of charity) are not your cup of tea , you could try:

    http://www.bicyclepaintings.com/
  • NervexProf
    NervexProf Posts: 4,202
    Total sale raised $1.25million.

    The Damien Hirst designed machine fetched $500,000!


    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/armstro ... 25-million
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