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Bring out your wild side with cheetah print pieces this Spring/Summer! Cheetah is fun, flirty and most definitely not for the wallflower types. Check out some of our favorite cheetah items for spring.

Bike obsessives and photo aficionados be warned: Gant is hosting a giveaway starting today that combines your two greatest loves. Teaming up with The Impossible Project, an organization aiming to preserve analog instant photography, the pioneering sportswear brand will be giving away a limited-edition Gant Rugger cruiser bicycle and an original, vintage Polaroid camera to one lucky individual.

Calling all New York bike riders (and there are many of you): tomorrow and Sunday you can get a free bike repair or tune-up courtesy of PUMA. Teaming up with Hub Station, the PUMA outpost (South Street Seaport between Fulton and Beekman Sts) will be offering its services between noon and 5 p.m. While your bike gets some much need TLC, you can watch the World Cup and grab a drink. It’s a win/win situation, for both you and your bicycle. Oh, and for true bike fanatics, you can always spend the time testing out PUMA’s new two-wheelers rather than relaxing.

Biking in the city can be a terrifying prospect—especially when spandex and performance fleece is involved. That’s why Brooklyn resident Julie Hirschfeld opened a store with a different kind of bike—the kind that brings to mind yellow ribbons, baskets of flowers and the South of France. Well, we’re still in New York. But these old-fashioned, downright romantic bicycles will bring you straight to Paris or Copenhagen.