Armstrong’s decorated bike

SEVEN-TIMES Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will cross the line in Paris at the end of this year’s race on a bike decorated by Damien Hirst with hundreds of dead butterflies.

The American is taking part in the race after a three-year break and has been riding custom-painted bikes to raise awareness of his cancer-fighting foundation.

As he rides down the Champs-Elysees tomorrow, his Trek Madone bike will shimmer and glisten as the sunlight catches the insects’ wings arranged all over its frame and wheel rims.