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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:
feltcarrot · 19/03/2019 16:55

And my mam bought me some spokie dokes for my bike for Christmas! (I’m 52😂)

WellGoshDarnIt · 19/03/2019 17:44

We used to call it a whippy? This was in Surrey - maybe it was peculiar to my town though!

unicornsrule · 19/03/2019 17:46

Backie from the south

Papergirl1968 · 19/03/2019 17:54

I started to wonder if I'd made chuckie up but no, I googled it and this from singietrackworld.com popped up - I don't know how to link it, sorry

Papergirl1968 · 19/03/2019 17:55

Pic as proof!

What did you call giving someone a lift on your bike?
Mememeplease · 19/03/2019 17:56

Back - Midlands

Mememeplease · 19/03/2019 17:56

Sorry Backie - auto corrected

isseywithcats · 19/03/2019 17:57

brummie origins we called it a backie

sugartitz · 19/03/2019 18:08

Backie. From west mids

Papergirl1968 · 19/03/2019 18:09

Reading further on the Single Track article, it suggests chuckie came from the word chuck as in to throw (your leg over the bike) and was used in the Stourbridge and Brierley Hill areas, both very close to where i grew up.
Only boys gave chuckies and only to other boys. Not boys to girls, girls to boys or girls to girls.

uncomfortablydumb53 · 19/03/2019 18:25

A doubler.... South West

snuffykins · 19/03/2019 18:28

I've a new one to add to the list.

A jont. From just outside Dublin.

StyleOfTheTimes · 19/03/2019 18:33

Backie- derbyshire

grannieanne · 19/03/2019 18:37

A Dubby or a Dub ( A double up) in Hampshire

DullPortraits · 19/03/2019 18:38

Seaty- midlands

NoIsACompleteAnswerSometimes · 19/03/2019 19:54

Just asked DH- two's up was what he called it, he's from Bath.

Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 19/03/2019 19:56

A backer (Dublin)

Aragog · 19/03/2019 20:00
  • cog (sometimes coggie/coggy)
grew up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Tisfortired · 19/03/2019 20:00

Backie, north west!

li1972 · 19/03/2019 20:04

Bunk or boost.... north wales!

Jenniferturkington · 19/03/2019 20:06

Croggy- Nottingham
Dh from near Norwich and says Backy

TheInvestigator · 19/03/2019 20:08

Backie- town outside Glasgow.

Oblomov19 · 19/03/2019 20:08

A backie.
Devon.

RandomMess · 19/03/2019 20:12

Croggy for me too North York's/Teesside

Heifer · 19/03/2019 20:16

Backie - Wiltshire. I remember getting shouted at by a local policeman when I was young and being absolutely mortified.

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