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There is little better on a hot summer day than to take a nice breezy bicycle ride. While I do advocate wearing a helmet for safety reasons, I appreciate the fab looks of these gals who did not have to succumb to dreaded helmet hair. 

The great photographer David Hamilton captures girls on two-wheels in his signature dreamy hazy style behind the lens

Anna Karina loves to bike - and not just when her charming Bande à part costars Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey are next to her

Audrey Hepburn was often seen bicycling on the studio backlots in between filming - 

The Beatles took to bikes on the set of Help

Hollywood supercouple Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart shared a deep love ... of bicycles

The beautiful Brigitte Bardot 

Carole Lombard with her pet dachshund Fritz 

Cate Blanchett shows off her skills 

Catherine Deneuve still manages to look every inch the sophisticated French style icon, even when traveling on two wheels

Claudia Schiffer hitches a ride in one of her ads as a legendary 'Guess?' girl

France Gall, my favorite

Funny men: Bill Murray, Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Einstein, Ray Walston and Anthony Perkins in a polo game, and Bing Crosby all ham it up on bikes

A famous photo of Jacques Tati and Alain Bécourt as they ride a bike

Grace Kelly in Monaco and on the lap of Jimmy Stewart on the set of Rear Window 

Jeanne Moreau and Henri Serre get a little relief from their Jules et Jim melancholia with this brief bike break

Julia Roberts ate, prayed, loved, and biked her way to happiness in her 2010 film 

Both Katharine Hepburn and Veronica Lake find creative ways to sit on their bicycles

A redheaded Marilyn Monroe - first in a photo by Richard Avedon, then in an early modeling photo when she was still known as Norma Jean

Sofia Coppola's confectionary creation for the Miss Dior Cherie advertisement features Maryna Lynchuk  on a vintage Schwinn 

Marilyn Monroe takes a ride with then-husband Arthur Miller

(top row) Hilary Rhoda, Kate Moss, Gemma Ward, model, Ellen Page, Christina Ricci, Victoria Beckham

(middle) Agyness Deyn, Kristen Stewart, Penelope Cruz, Monica Belucci, Michelle Williams, Amanda Seyfried

(bottom row) Doutzen Kroes, Chloe Sevigny, Lily Donaldson, Sienna Miller, Mischa Barton, Kate Hudson 

Seth and Summer (love) 

Rita Hayworth was often seen on two wheels - even getting Gilda costar Glenn Ford to join in on the fun

Françoise Hardy looks so untouchably cool 

Groovy singers and Hollywood heartthrobs: (top row) Elvis, Sean Connery, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen

(bottom row) Paul McCartney on the set of Magical Mystery Tour, James Dean with galpal Pier Angeli, Paul Newman and Butch Cassidy costar Katharine Ross

Yeah, this is how my best friends and I dress whenever we go out together

This is how the Tour De France used to be. Seriously.

A darling Shirley Temple - not even on training wheels!

Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg in the film Lilith 

Twiggy has a ball on a bike

The loveliest ladies of film: (top row) Deborah Kerr, Geneviève Bujold, Ava Gardner, Brenda Joyce, Susannah York, Isabelle Adjani, with Yves Montand holding an umbrella overhead

(bottom row) Eartha Kitt, Romy Schneider, Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren

Zooey Deschanel's most famous moment on two wheels came in (500) Days of Summer, where her character was called 'of average height and slightly above average shoe size', but she shows she's anything but average in real life

Wanna see some more bicycle pics? Check out these sites:

Beauties on Bicycles

Chicks and Bikes

Rides A Bike

Cozy Beehive

Cycle Chic (Australian Cycling Forums)

Title: from "Bicycle Race" (Queen)

she looked so bright in pixie hair, she made me know how much i cared

When photos of Emma Watson's new pixie cut were first released to the unexpecting public a few months ago, I had one thought: ugh. My inner monologue went a-buzz when I saw her close crop - it's not that I didn't love her haircut, I was just jealous. For years, I've wanted to cut my hair into a chic short crop. I think it was a late night viewing of Bonjour Tristesse that did me in. Seeing Jean Seberg running around the French Riviera without any hair hanging down her neck ignited something in me that I haven't been able to shake. She looked so carefree, so sexy, so gaminely gorgeous - I wanted to be her (well, minus the part about destroying the lives of everyone around her ... in the film, I mean). 

Since then, I feel like everyone around me has these incredibly cool crops: so many actresses and singers - talented and untalented alike - have made the plunge with a pixie; my hairdresser is in the process of growing out her super spunky, edgy cropped 'do; the mother of one of my friends has the perfect pixie I really want to get. And then there are those amazingly cool girls I see around campus (but are too intimidatingly hip to ever approach them) who have immaculately cared-for crops. 

I know that I shouldn't ever cut my hair this drastically short. I've discussed this with my brothers, my mother, my friends, and hairdressers, and the general consensus is that I would look dreadful with this haircut. It's been explained that I don't have the 'elfish' features required for the look, which I accept and agree with. I don't have those devastatingly petite features that appear delicate and pretty. I've accepted the fact that if I were to crop my hair, I would look like an uglier version of my younger brother. Plus there's that danger of screwing up and coming out with a very mumsy look. It's easy to go wrong with this look if you opt for thick sideswept bangs in the front (a la Ashlee Simpson, Hayden Pannetierre, Kate Gosselin ... sorry guys). So while Kate (of the Eight) and I can't do the pixie, here is my ode to the women who have done it right:

Several of Audrey's most popular characters underwent major transformations in the form of cutting her hair short, like in Roman Holiday and Sabrina

French film actress Audrey Tautou has garnered comparisons to the Audrey mentioned above due to her coquettish gamine personality and her chic hairstyle

To portray Edie Sedgwick, Sienna Miller chopped off her long hippie locks in favor of a look more resembling the former Warhol superstar

Carey Mulligan reached the top of every best dressed list with her daring fashion choices and the ever-changing hue of her pixie

Pairing minimalist clothes with maximalist accessories, Edie Sedgwick sealed her fate as the style maven of the underground scene when she cropped and dyed her once-brunette long locks

Emma Watson has matched her new look with edgier fashion choices and more dramatic makeup

Ginnifer Goodwin shows off several different ways to style a pixie: sleek bangs swept across the forehead, styled back to give the appearance of shorter fringe, or mussed up for more texture

Laugh-In starlet Goldie Hawn looks like she's having a blast in her flower-power dress and short hairstyle

Halle Berry has the amazing ability to appear to never age - she constantly looks fresh and sexy, especially with her close crop

Jane Birkin, owner of the most lusted-for fringe of the sixties, went with a shorter look in the seventies

The style icon who started it all (for me, at least) Jean Seberg, the princess of French New Wave in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse and Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle

Jean Shrimpton tries the style on as she channels Mia Farrow for a Vogue editorial 

Kate Moss transformed from poster gal of heroin chic to pixie princess in 2001 with a cut by her BFF James Brown (not that James Brown)

To play bounty hunter Domino Harvey, Keira Knightley got an edgy crop that was longer in the front than the back; though technically playing a bounty hunter, Keira looked like a rock star

Kirsten Dunst reportedly cropped her hair to prove to studio execs that she would be the right fit for an in-development Jean Seberg biopic (I'm still hoping that this project comes to being one of these days)

Marianne Faithfull revealed her short style in 1968, in projects such as Rock and Roll Circus, and again in the early 1970s

In the film Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow has this exchange with her displeased husband, played by John Cassavetes: 

JC: What the hell is that?

MF: I've been to Vidal Sassoon!

JC: You mean you actually paid for that?!

Besides the whole allowing his wife to be raped by Satan in exchange for a successful acting career, this was a primo example of Rosemary's husband's douchebaggery

A Mia of a different name - Wasikowska, that is - also rocks the pixie

Michelle Williams garnered comparisons to Mia Farrow when she cut her hair in 2007; three years later she has a pixie again but has longer fringe and a brighter shade of blonde

Model Mona Johannesson, photographed by Camilla Åkrans, channels Rosemary Woodhouse

In the process of growing out her post-V for Vendetta shorn look, Natalie Portman looked absolutely stunning with her groomed short style

Supermodel Agyness Deyn is known as much for her peroxide pixie as her androgynous style

Though she started a style craze when she debuted her chin-length bob in 2008, I prefer the heavily highlighted crop she sported at the Met Gala the next year

Selma Blair opted for shaggy, unevenly chopped bangs to add a little more edge to her cropped 'do

Victoria Beckham takes off that "extra half an inch" when she went from her Rihanna-reminiscent bob to this short pixie crop in early 2009

Winona Ryder's short hairstyle looked its grooviest in the 1960s-set film Girl, Interrupted matched with black-and-white boatneck tees and fitted turtleneck sweaters

Title: from "Keep On Believing" (Iggy Pop)