Lance Armstrong makes cameo in controversial music video

Lance Armstrong seemingly can’t keep himself out of the spotlight, this time appearing in a music video for his friend Tim Commerford’s new band.

The video for Future User’s “Mountain Lion”, which is a bit too graphic to put on the Cycling Weekly website, begins in a pretty blatant fashion, with a balaclava’d man mixing up a smoothie containing a host of pills before heading out on his skateboard.

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Towards the end of the video, after several scenes of the boarder topping up his pills and steroids, we see the man jump into the back of a van to hook himself up to a blood transfusion.

Then Armstrong makes his appearance. Dressed in his lycra, with World Champion stripes on the arms, the Texan calls his real life friend Commerford to leave a message with some pretty choice words.

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Former Rage Against The Machine bassist Commerford said in a press release: “Lance is a friend, an awesome person, and, as far as I’m concerned, a punk-rocker. We’re ‘cycling buddies’ and typically go after each other in a trash-talking/’I’ll one-up you’ kind of way.

“We’ll jokingly leave each other voice messages like, ‘Dude, I’m gonna crush you the next time I see you. I’m gonna take you down’.

“I thought it’d be cool to put one of his voice messages in the song. When it came time to make the video, I asked him to recreate the voice mail and he was totally cool with it.”

Commerford says the video is an attempt to highlight the US Government’s pre-occupation with performance-enhancing drugs rather than dealing with the other drugs problems in the country.

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And rather than shying away from something so close to his own story, Armstrong was more than happy to be seen in such a video.

“He’s fearless. He’s not locked in his house, hiding from people. If you live in Austin, Texas, he’s out there riding his bike and running. Let’s not forget, this is a guy who raised $500 million for cancer research and people love him. I love him. I think he’s badass.”

Meanwhile, outside of his burgeoning acting career, Armstrong has updated his Twitter biography - reinstating his seven Tour de France titles, even if the UCI are, as yet, unwilling to officially do so.