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What do you call it when someone gives you a lift on their bike?

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EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 14/12/2019 18:27

I was talking to a colleague the other day about what we were doing for Christmas, and he said he was heading off early because he had to go and collect his mum from the airport. He cycles everywhere, so I jokingly said "Are you going to give her a croggy?" He had no idea what I was talking about, and after I had hurriedly explained what it was, i.e. not a euphemism for something dodgy, he said "Oh, you mean a backie". I had never heard of that term - but a quick straw poll round the office revealed that everyone else called it a backie as well. We're all from various parts of Yorkshire, for reference, but I am the only one from North Yorkshire...

I am sure I haven't invented the term croggy, so I'm wondering if it's one of those regional oddities where only people from one specific town say it.

Where do you stand on the backie/croggy issue, and where did you grow up?

OP posts:
Pascha · 14/12/2019 18:37

We called it a buggy or buggy-ride. I'm from Kent. I suppose its just a bastardisation of backy though.

NaToth · 14/12/2019 18:38

Croggie - Leicester.

Given the way words get mangled there, I thought it was from crossbar.

safariboot · 14/12/2019 18:39

In Birmingham it was and is a backy.

ChipInTheSugar · 14/12/2019 18:40

A backy! But a previous poster from the same area upthread has said seater. I've never heard of that word Grin

InTheWalls · 14/12/2019 18:40

A seaty! Merseyside.

Bogoffrain · 14/12/2019 18:41

Croggy -east midlands

msmith501 · 14/12/2019 18:41

Croggy - from the word crossbar I assume. Term was rife in the East Midlands when I grew up in the 70s

BoswellSolver · 14/12/2019 18:41

Go twos.

wheresmyhairytoe · 14/12/2019 18:41

A croggy!

marvellousnightforamooncup · 14/12/2019 18:42

Backy, Gloucestershire.

TooMuchEyeliner · 14/12/2019 18:42

I’d call it a lift on a bike...

I didn’t realise there were specific words for it!

MoonlightMistletoe · 14/12/2019 18:42

A backie - sitting on the seat
A frontie 😂 - sitting on the handle bars

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 14/12/2019 18:43

Perhaps there was a kid from Nottingham or Derby at my primary school in the 80s who brought the term with them!

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MoonlightMistletoe · 14/12/2019 18:43

Oh SE London

CollaterlieSistersSister · 14/12/2019 18:43

A takie. Merseyside.

Never heard a seaty InTheWalls!

amusedbush · 14/12/2019 18:44

I’m from Edinburgh and call it a seater.

DH is from Glasgow and calls it a backy.

MistyMinge2 · 14/12/2019 18:44

Backy - from the south west

misspiggy19 · 14/12/2019 18:44

A backy

FruityWidow · 14/12/2019 18:44

Backie or Backsy - south west

Sweetooth92 · 14/12/2019 18:44

Croggy-Nottingham. Never heard it called anything else

Christmashope19 · 14/12/2019 18:45

A backie

BowiesJumper · 14/12/2019 18:45

Backie. SW London.

Honeyroar · 14/12/2019 18:46

I lived in Nottingham when I left the NW and I think I heard it there.

Lonelycrab · 14/12/2019 18:46

A backy.

Or a frontie if they’re sat on the handlebars.

Yoohoo16 · 14/12/2019 18:46

A seaty.