crog, croggy
Original ID : 178 Created On : 2002-11-24 Last Modified : 2005-05-01
Hitching a ride on a bike clearly designed with only one rider in mind. The compromised lateral stability of the bike, coupled with the fact that the ‘passenger’ invariably had to stick his legs out miles, invoked mirth and terror as this lurching four-legged monster wobbled between kerb and road. Matthew Blissett, a boy at my primary school was rumoured to have slid off of the seat and onto the wheel and had his scrotum ’eaten’ by the mudguard. Naturally, once enough people heard this rumour it was accepted as truth.
Stephen B
One variant of the croggy is the ‘Barrey’ in which the passenger sits on the crossbar. I can only imagine that this was inflicted as some sort of punishment, or perhaps to recruit for the school choir.