[Closed] Chuckie, backie, seatie or something else?

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!

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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

Backie - Kendal 20yrs ago

Seater - late 70s/80s Cheshire

On the Isle of Man in the '50s/'60s we mostly called it a "backie" although a few people did use "seater". My wife's from Woodthorpe (Notts) and she says they called it a "croggy".

Used to call it "seater" in the late 70's early 80's (in North Kent).
Of course, Choppers had a warning on them saying not meant for 2 people, so that was asking to be ignored.

I'm so pleased some others called it a croggy as well. I also grew up in Leicester. Then moved up to Halifax and some folk just called it a pillion. Most said backie though.

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

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