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.

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.

Some of the older kids had 'croggy bars' - short metal tubes that stuck out sideways from the rear wheel axle which you could stand on instead of having to adopt the normal splay-legged croggy position. You stood on them, held on to the rider's shoulders and prayed like hell he didn't brake suddenly, as this would invariably lead to a sudden back of seat/testicle impact event.

Some of the older kids had 'croggy bars' - short metal tubes that stuck out sideways from the rear wheel axle which you could stand on instead of having to adopt the normal splay-legged croggy position. You stood on them, held on to the rider's shoulders and prayed like hell he didn't brake suddenly, as this would invariably lead to a sudden back of seat/testical impact event.

These days they make metal bars that stick out of the centre of your rear tire that serve two purposes. One is to ram the other bikers in races, and the other, which it was seemingly designed for, is for people to stand on the bars and hold your shoulders, thus getting a ride, dispite this being illegal in Canada.

Up until the moment I read the croggy thing, I (and my entire school) was without doubt that the same thing had happened to Cabbage in about 1989. When he was 14 or so, a girl he was seeing was informed of his mishap by a socially conscious young crusader, and immediately dumped him. He later went on to kick someone to death at a nightclub.

Also known as a dinky or dink in Australia, often fun, although I have seen some pretty nice injuries from them. Don't try to dinky down steps, it's just a recipie for disaster.

Other variations were the croggee sitting on the handle bars (most comfortable for the croggier, as they retain their natural riding position, but almost impossible to steer unless you can bench press twice the wait of your friend)

or

back in the days of the coolest kid on the street owning a BMX with stunt pegs, the croggee would simply stand on the back pegs, one foot on either side, and hold on to the croggiers' waist or shoulder with the wind in their hair. This invariabley looked the coolest, if only because you were mates with someone who obviously knew enough cool BMX tricks to warrant stunt pegs...