Boris Johnson gives his wife a 'backie' unbelievable!

[jefmcg]

More importantly, what's a shelter shed? We have 'behind the bike sheds' which was where you went to smoke or grope (apparently). Is it a lean to? What makes it not just a shed?

That's the international one! Bike shed! Thanks.

Shelter sheds are (or were) covered space in a school playground with benches for huddling in during the rain. Because Australia winters are usually not that cold, many schools didn't have indoor areas for lunch time.

They weren't anything like this, back in the day.

 

[nickyboy]

Contador developed his out-of-the seat climbing style by giving loads of backies to his mates when he was younger.

And that's a fact

 

[glasgowcyclist]

It's a backie.

But the act of having someone across your handlebars was a haunie as the were across your haunlebaurs.

But as I grew up, a haunie became something completely different...

And having someone sitting on the crossbar was a baurie. I suppose nowadays it would be a tubie but that might be something else entirely.


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[Toshiba Boy]

Always called a Backie for me too.

..and just for Fnaar, we used to "ride up and down the back entry" all through those halcyon 1960/70's long summer holidays.

 

[tyred]

She can sit on my carrier any time she wants to
JPG_10384 Bicycle made for two. At the Munsterplatz, Roermond, Holland. by Nick Emmons, on Flickr

 

[Tim Hall]

The Sun would lose their tiny minds if they ever went to Brugge - the "backie" is ubiquitous, and, curiously, the streets weren't running with blood, and society had not collapsed.

But they did manage without a government for 581 days. Perhaps it's a consequence of their hedonistic backie ways.

In other news, I know a rude joke about a croggie.

 

[Ciar]

backies in my neck of the woods.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

It's a backie here too. Well done to Boris for doing that but I'd never let my hubby give me one in public

Ooer missus, titter ye not!

 

[Fnaar]

It's a backie here too. Well done to Boris for doing that but I'd never let my hubby give me one in public

Oh Lor!

 

[Arjimlad]

How unlike the home life of our own dear Queen !

 

[MossCommuter]

It shows Ms Wheeler sitting on the saddle, without a helmet, holding her handbag as her husband stands on the pedals.

Sigh

 

[snorri]

But as I grew up, a haunie became something completely different...

Yeah, and "a ride" never had anything to do with bicycles until I started reading cycle forums

 

[jefmcg]

Yeah, and "a ride" never had anything to do with bicycles until I started reading cycle forums

If I had read "Boris Johnson gives his wife a 'backie" anywhere but on a cycle forum, I would have assumed something quite different.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Boris riding his bike is a no-no...lads hanging out of a car shouting abuse at him...that's ok?

 

[User169]

Saw a report in the local student newspaper where someone claimed to have seen a guy riding a bike with a baby on the front seat and a woman riding sidesaddle at the back. She was breastfeeding and talking on the phone.