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It was a "Takey" in my bit of Liverpool, I'm distressed no-one else has said it yet!
I thought Croggy derived from crossbar, i.e the passenger sits on the crossbar (top tube).
Backie was for a passenger on the saddle (or rear stunt nuts!). Also located in the West Mids.
Then moved up to Halifax and some folk just called it a pillion
I grew up in Mytholmroyd, we said pillion or backie
Backie, in Hampshire. From the 70's to present day.
In my youth in NornIrn I think it was a Tan (as in Tandem?), then Teeside croggie, now in S Yorks it seems to be backie.
Backie in Barnsley in the '80s.
Backie East Devon 70s/80s
backie (kent late 70s)
double (Australia, QLD, 70s)
Crogger - S****horpe late 80's/90s
Backie in 90s Surrey.
dubby. hampshire.
Backie or a seatie for a rear mounted ride.
Croggy a ride seated on the top tube between the saddle and bars.
Ellesmere Port - 1977 to 1991.
Stoking. My bike has two saddles and the rear is expected to pedal 😉
It was a Croggy when I was a kid (in Saltburn, was North Yorkshire at the time)
Central Scotland, Backie, seater if you came from the posher end of the toon!
@ Josemctavish
It was a Takey for us too. South Liverpool (Garston) in the 80s.
Backie, Cornwall, 80s/90s.
Backie for me. Or a peggy during our BMX phase (standing on the stunt pegs).
Exeter, 80's/90's
Backie in 1980's Wuzzersher
Backer for me. Today is the first time ive seen it called a croggy 🙂
Every day a school day
Coggie - Rural Derbyshire early 80's.
+1 for a middle class upbringing and my own bike making such verbs redundant.
Backie! Why is this even up for discussion? 😆
North London, 1970s. Backie.
Croggy a ride seated on the top tube between the saddle and bars.
Hmm..... Strokes chin.....that makes sense actually, crossbar = croggy..........
maybe chuckie in the western reaches of the Black Country came from 'to chuck' your leg over something, or chuck anything anywhere, brick through a window etc 🙂
this is ground breaking stuff