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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:
Elephantina · 19/03/2019 13:03

I'm really struggling to remember what we called it - I'm from coastal Essex, and I notice no one from there has commented!

I'm sure there was a word but I can't place it. I'll have to ask my brother, but I keep coming up with "saddleback"!!!

BettyBigBollocks · 19/03/2019 13:05

Backie (regardless of your position on the bike) - Herefordshire area.

Regional dialect fascinates me, I much prefer the word Croggy! Not heard it until now!

RightOnTheEdge · 19/03/2019 13:06

Croggie, West Yorkshire

amusedbush · 19/03/2019 13:12

Either a seatie or backie - Edinburgh.

caringiscreepy · 19/03/2019 13:57

Backie - NI

bakebakebake · 19/03/2019 13:58

"Seater" suffolk

Zoflorabore · 19/03/2019 14:00

It was and still is called a "takey" here in Liverpool.

nunnun · 19/03/2019 14:11

A pag as in "gizza pag!" Grimsby area

bellsbuss · 19/03/2019 14:28

A backie, south west

BearSoFair · 19/03/2019 14:28

East London, on our estate it was a bunny, everywhere else locally a backie. No idea how or why we ended up with a separate word!

DearPrudence · 19/03/2019 14:28

Seaty in Cheshire.
Or sometimes a Crossy, if you were in the crossbar, obviously.

Celeriacacaca · 19/03/2019 14:35

Dub in NZ.

MrsSpooks · 19/03/2019 14:39

seater or a bunk - Cambridge

Daisychainsandglitter · 19/03/2019 15:25

Seaty- Suffolk

c24680 · 19/03/2019 15:27

Seater - North West Wales

LikeDolphinsCanSwim · 19/03/2019 15:27

Seater - Norfolk

EmmaC78 · 19/03/2019 15:30

A backie - west coast scotland.

Ribbonsonabox · 19/03/2019 15:31

Croggy!

Absurditi · 19/03/2019 15:32

Surrey. Backie.

Namechange8471 · 19/03/2019 15:56

Croggy!

Katastrophy · 19/03/2019 15:59

A croggy. North Oxfordshire.

conhill · 19/03/2019 16:00

South coast a doubler.

VoyageInTheDark · 19/03/2019 16:00

Backie in Cambridgeshire. DH is from north east and had never heard of the term before

teyem · 19/03/2019 16:01

A cog, North East

alislim · 19/03/2019 16:01

Backie from Glossop, Derbyshire

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