Lance Armstrong's Bikes + Art: What could be better?

Oh Happy Day! Artistic road bikes are this woman's new froyo (not just any froyo - good fraiche shit). And I cannot deny my love for Lance...I follow his twitter updates at work. Tweet Tweet!

According to the Trek Bikes Website, all of these things are now rolled into one:

Trek, The Lance Armstrong Foundation, Nike, and the most influential artists of a generation have teamed up to produce a unique collection of bicycles and art without peer.
The Exhibition opens at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris before traveling to the United States this fall. All work is available for purchase with proceeds directly benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Anyone want to buy me a new bicycle? Here are some photos:

This bike with a "stroboscopic" rear wheel design (apparently meaning that the wheel looks like it's pulsing as it spins) was used for Lance's opening time trial this year. The bike was designed by Australian-born, London-based Marc Newson, "a revolutionary designer whose work in the fields of aerospace, furniture, product, jewelry, interior, and vehicle design have earned him countless accolades from the design community."

"Deceptively simple. Naive. Childlike. All words that might be used to describe the first look at Yoshitomo Nara's work. Inspection reveals a deeper truth — saws, knives, and sharp implements often grace the hands of his young subjects, who often possess a look of anger, cynicism, or concern. "

Pretty dramatic for a bike, eh? Athletes love drama (at the very least, American sports announcers do. SportsCenter is absurd.) Anyway, this design was created by a Japanese contemporary artist - Yoshitomo Nara - who, from what I can tell, likes to use seemingly cute images (pastel skinned children, bubbly cloud fonts) as a misleading front for his true darker intentions (the kids on this bike have boxing gloves and are swarmed with UFOs). Apparently he is a big music fan and attributes much of the energy seen in his work to his love of punk music. In a touching personal gesture, Nara also included a moving inspirational message handwritten across the top tube of the bike's frame, visible only when Armstrong's head is deep in an aerodynamic tuck: "Never Forget Your Beginner's Spirit."