Chuckie, backie, seatie or something else?

(Term for giving ones mate a lift on the saddle of your bicycle, whilst you stand on the pedals and do all the hard work)

Chuckie sp?

Backie, obvz.

EDIT: South Devon origin for ref’.

not where we were,..always chuckie 🙂

Giz a chuckie

Cog

Backie up West Fife way in the ’70s.

Croggie (sp?) or backie for me. North Yorkshire.

Croggy. Also from 80s/90s South Devon…

Cheshire; backie

Aye, lad. In North Yarkshire it were a croggie.

Backy in Ulster

Backie in Wembley up until the trick nut revolution that gave you your seat back.

Croggy in Penrith.

Backie; West London, 70’s, 80’s vintage

croggy – teesside

Backer- North Shields

Backie, NW Cumbria.

Edit: As demonstrated at my wedding, don’t worry no alcohol was spilt!

Buckie – Nuneaton.
Where I am now, Nottingham, it’s Croggy, or more accurately, “croggeh”.

Croggy here in Leicester.

Backie. West Yorkshire late 80’s/90’s.

According to Mrs APF, backie in Mansfield, croggy (croggeh) in Nottingham.

Backie in S London, which is the correct term.

APF

Backie for me in the Black Countray

I think our cul-de-sac must have been in a world of it’s own with Chuckie in Wollaston, Stourbridge! 😀

Backie in Birmingham in mid-eighties.

I appreciate there are other cultures but here in Britain, we say backie. None of these other words actually mean anything, they’re just grunts and vowels. I think cavemen, given a go on the back of a bike, might have called it a croggy.

Was always known as a backer where I grew up (Milton Keynes) but round these parts it’s called a ski.

Coggy – north Notts

I appreciate there are other cultures but here in Britain, we say backie. None of these other words actually mean anything, they’re just grunts and vowels. I think cavemen, given a go on the back of a bike, might have called it a croggy.

diversity ay it!

Croggy. North Yorkshire.

thegreatape – Member

Croggy. North Yorkshire.

As I thought- cavemen 😉

Cheshire: Backie
Leicestershire: Croggy

Backie growing up on my side of the Black Country (Sedgley), Chuckie on the wife’s side (Brierley Hill)

diversity ay it!

R

I grew up in the Home Counties. We just all had our own bikes to ride. 😉

Actually, that’s a lie. ‘Twas a backie when I were wee.

Saddler – 80’s Sussex

Give us a backie – from that there Wiltshiurr

Backie growing up on my side of the Black Country (Sedgley), Chuckie on the wife’s side (Brierley Hill)

another chuckie,..i’m made up 😀

South Wales in the 70/80s it was a seater, butty

Seatie in Suffolk about 20 years ago!

Backie as god and Derby decided it should be called (and only on a Chopper or Griffter)

A seater on le Wirral