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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:
rubydoobydoo · 14/12/2019 19:58

A backie - Lancashire and Warwickshire.

TotheletterofthelawTHELETTER · 14/12/2019 19:59

Backer

penberrh · 14/12/2019 20:00

I thought croggy was a specific Teesside thing (which can be County Durham or n.yorks depending which side of the river you’re on). Pleased to see it’s East Midlandsand East Yorkshire too!

Oblomov19 · 14/12/2019 20:00

Backy

roiseandjim · 14/12/2019 20:00

A backie

MustardScreams · 14/12/2019 20:01

Seatie - Norfolk

PickwickThePlockingDodo · 14/12/2019 20:02

A bunk!

Thank you @Mummyoftwo91
I was beginning to think I imagined that we called it a bunk as no one else had said it.
Are you from the SE too?

Everytimeiseeher · 14/12/2019 20:02

Backy I’m from edinburgh

SarahsDuckz · 14/12/2019 20:06

I always thought it was called a cog! Cambridgeshire

itstrue · 14/12/2019 20:07

A dub

KnightandDay · 14/12/2019 20:07

A backer, but it was the same even if you were on the front/handlebars - which I guess doesn't make much sense!!

Somanysocks · 14/12/2019 20:09

A backie, in Essex.

Theyhaveallbeenused2 · 14/12/2019 20:11

A backie..Lanarkshire Scotland

Lulualla · 14/12/2019 20:13

Backie- Glasgow

Somanysocks · 14/12/2019 20:14

Didnt rtft, but now i've seen sadler that sounds familiar too, maybe we said both backie and sadler. In my 50s.

Lulualla · 14/12/2019 20:14

And when I was younger and lived in Lanarkshire it was also a backie!

MashedSpud · 14/12/2019 20:15

A backie. I grew up in Cheshire.

Mlou32 · 14/12/2019 20:16

A backie and I'm from Scotland. Never heard of a croggie.

30not13 · 14/12/2019 20:18

Midlands. Backie.

FthisS · 14/12/2019 20:18

Seater (pembs)

GaraMedouar · 14/12/2019 20:20

Backy - South East London

BarbaraStrozzi · 14/12/2019 20:20

A backie

anunseemlylovefordustin · 14/12/2019 20:21

A seaty (Norfolk)

WinifredTorrance · 14/12/2019 20:21

Croggy. I’m in North Yorkshire too.

hazeyjane · 14/12/2019 20:25

A backie
London