what is it called when a cyclist gives somebody a lift on the saddle of the pushbike?

Question

what is it called when a cyclist gives somebody a lift on their bike where the passenger balances seated in the saddle while the cyclist leans forward an pedals?

Answer 1

A backie!!

Answer 2

Being very small, I always sat on the crossbar and got lifts home from various members of our gang inside the sixties... it felt safer too, encircled inside strong arms. Ah, those were the days... just a teen and always offered crossbar rides home, until, one day, the tiny mouse called Brownie, that this tomboy carried in my sweater, that went everywhere I went, even to my school, as it ran across my arms and chest and made me feel untouchable outside, this bullied child at home, "if it happens to you, it happens to me, because we are friends forever", bounced out from his safe hiding place and disappeared beneath a hump back bridge in the darkness of the night... it broke my childish heart.

Can't think of a crossbar ride now, even in my sixties, without recalling Brownie, sigh:-)

Answer 3

A "backie" is where you take a passenger on the saddle. A "croggy" is where you take a passenger on the crossbar

Answer 4

if your riding as a passenger on a motorbike its pillion but for a pushbike its a backie

Answer 5

In Glasgow it's a" Backie"

Answer 6

the best one is when you sit in there Handel bars facing the way your going with the person riding the bike as normal now that's hard core !

Answer 7

When I was a kid in Australia, it was referred to as giving someone a "dinky". Don't know what it's called in the UK though, sorry!

Answer 8

I've always called it a backie in good old essex!!!!

Answer 9

Hey,

I know it as a backy!?

Don't know if that helps or it's a southern thing.

Answer 10

It's a croggy in Yorkshire