Croggy - a new one on me.

[RickH]

I'd never heard the term before this topic. Backie was the only name I knew for letting someone else ride on your saddle, I don't recall if that extended to sitting on other parts of the bike.

[rfryer]

I've never heard croggy before. In In Sheffield in the 70s/80s, we always used "backie". By the mid 80s, that meant standing on the peg nuts on your mate's Raleigh Burner! Never liked sitting on the BMX bars, despite them having a nice padded crossmember.

[anniesboy]

Ive never heard that but then again,Im from Berks / Oxon border and lots of pubs have Aunt Sally pitches.
Many people dont know of Aunt Sally

[thirdcrank]

Ive never heard that but then again,Im from Berks / Oxon border and lots of pubs have Aunt Sally pitches.
Many people dont know of Aunt Sally

Was she a cyclist?

[sloyd]

Gave many a croggy in York from 1978 to 1985. If you had a pushrod, you shared it with mates going your way.

[The utility cyclist]

Croggy for me too as a child from Kingston upon Hull from the 70s, the equivalent terminology around North Herts, with possibly an influence from the London overspill is 'backie'.
Having given a few croggies in my time the phrase 'backie' is closer to the action, i remember cycling my gf to her part-time work on a Sunday morning when we were both at college before I bought/built a bike for her. She used to sit on the saddle on the back as it were and I honked out the saddle, lucky for me Hull is flat as a pancake but those 3 miles were still blummin hard work

[Mick F]

Never heard of the word.

Backy was when you gave someone a lift sat on your rear rack or the saddle.
Crozzy was when they sat sidesaddle on the cross bar.

As far as I'm concerned those two words actually say what you're doing.
Croggy means nothing.

[Paulatic]

If someone asked me for a Croggy I usually gave them a backy as I found it easier that way.
My early years were in Thornaby on Tees and I see they’ve a new way of giving a Croggy now.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teess ... d-12775592

[resus1uk]

Used in late 50s & early 60s in Harrogate (posh) & Knaresborough (not as posh)

[JohnW]

Yep, grew up in Notts in the 60's and 70's and Croggy was a commonly heard term. Everyone knew what it meant.

I've been in West Yorkshire since the 40s, never moved away, and riding bikes (i.e. two wheelers as distinct from tricycle) since the 50s. Throughout my childhood days and teen years in the 50s we graduated from playing out with our bikes to doing 'rides' together, and the first I've ever heard of the word "croggy" was when this thread started. I don't remember that we had a word for it.

The term that I hear spoken and shouted by kids locally is 'backie'.

[Stewart H]

Here in North Wales seatie or crossy were generally used.

[PJ520]

I see they’ve a new way of giving a Croggy now.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teess ... d-12775592

What intrigues me is how do they get started?

[simonhill]

Essex, 1960s.

We normally gave a ride on the saddle, we called that a saddler.

Not sure why we rarely did the crossbar thing, perhaps too risky. I think we just called it a crossbar, as in give me a crossbar.

Is it something in the accent that changes the ss to gg?

Interesting this shortening and ending in y (eee sound) reminds me of the Aussie who do it to everything eg a pushie.

[The utility cyclist]

Never heard of the word.

Backy was when you gave someone a lift sat on your rear rack or the saddle.
Crozzy was when they sat sidesaddle on the cross bar.

As far as I'm concerned those two words actually say what you're doing.
Croggy means nothing.

To you maybe, to millions of people in the country it most definitely means something and for many brings back a lot of memories from ones childhoodyouth.
Since when did a word have to have a direct relation to the action, since when do spellings or even pronunciations have to be so rigid, they never have been in most languages.

[Mick F]

Croggy means nothing as a word.
That's what I meant.

It doesn't stand for something, it isn't a shortened word, or a rhyming slang word .............. or any other way you want me to explain.