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What did you call giving someone a lift on your bike?

273 replies

DuggeesWoggle · 19/03/2019 08:31

And where in the country was it?

DH brought up near Birmingham called it a 'backie'

I was brought up in North Yorkshire, called it a 'croggy'.

Just seen a teenage lad giving a friend a handlebar croggy which is what brought it to mind!

OP posts:
MyAuntyBadger · 19/03/2019 10:34

Backie, Northants.

iklboo · 19/03/2019 10:35

Seater in Manchester

eclipse1808 · 19/03/2019 10:35

Croggy - nottinghamshire
Heard kids around Derby where I live now call it a backie and figured that makes more sense

Oldraver · 19/03/2019 10:35

East Midlands we called it a backie

Montybabe · 19/03/2019 10:36

A bunk - south coast

EggplantVestibule · 19/03/2019 10:39

A sweaty - Suffolk

EggplantVestibule · 19/03/2019 10:39

SEATY!! Not sweaty Grin

YerAWizardHarry · 19/03/2019 10:40

Backie NE Scotland!

Burlea · 19/03/2019 10:45

Croggy Cheshire

FloofenHoofen · 19/03/2019 10:48

Derbyshire, it's definitely called a croggy.

NakedAvenger · 19/03/2019 10:50

Can someone make a colour coded map of this please?!

PepsiLola · 19/03/2019 11:04

A seaty, I'm from north west

Papergirl1968 · 19/03/2019 11:07

A Chucky (chuckie?) in my part of the Black Country. Interesting that pp from the Black Country and Birmingham called it backies.

Igotmylipstickon · 19/03/2019 11:11

Backer - if you sat on the back of the bike
Crosser or Crossbar - if you sat on the crossbar

from Dublin.

NotWhatWhat · 19/03/2019 11:13

I haven't read all the thread so sorry if it's
Already been mentioned but in South Africa they call Pick up trucks bakkies and I wonder if it's because of the English term of giving get people a backie on a bike. I don't think it is as I thinks it's probably an Africaans word but I like my version better. Also the spelling wouldn't make sense.

We always called them backies and we lived in Lancashire and Devon.

What did you call giving someone a lift on your bike?
PinkCrayon · 19/03/2019 11:15

A backie - southeast

sugarbum · 19/03/2019 11:15

croggy (Teesside)

ChorleyFMcominginyourears · 19/03/2019 11:15

North Yorkshire too and it was definitely croggy!

CluedoAddict · 19/03/2019 11:15

Backie West Midlands.

Mum2OneTeen · 19/03/2019 11:16

A "dink" (Australia 1960/70s)

StillDumDeDumming · 19/03/2019 11:20

A backie on the back and a croggy on the handlebars! Northamptonshire

Rockbird · 19/03/2019 11:20

Backie - London/Ireland

flameycakes · 19/03/2019 11:21

A seatie x

motherofdxughters · 19/03/2019 11:50

Backie (Wales)

Havalina · 19/03/2019 11:52

Tan (short for tandem I assume, just occurred to me)-teesside