Wheelies!

Sounds like it was made up by those goofy Canadians then, sounds like something they would say

Catwalk, eh?

Never heard of any catwalk except involving models.

Riding a bike means popping wheelies.

Its starting to appear catwalk is either a Canadian word, or an old one. We used it in the 70's, while riding our "mustang bikes".

Catwalk = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ

Wheelie =

Duke wrote: Never heard of a catwalk ever. We didn't really differentiate between popping a wheelie and riding a wheelie, though riding did imply longer duration. There *was* a weird subset of kids who used 'pop-a-wheelie' like a noun. As in "Then I did a pop-a-wheelie..." It always sounded weird to me.

Those kids probably went on to work for "fords". shudder

Joey

Southeast Michigan, never heard catwalk. I bmxed a lot.

Joey

Strange. When I was a kid, (mid-80s) we called an extended ride on the back wheel a "catwalk"as well. I say strange because this was in SE Missouri, not Canada.

In reply to JamesMcD:

Here we thought we had it all figured out and along comes JamesMcD to just add to the mystery.

Maybe there is a sect of closet Canadians living in south east MO?

Catwalk for long wheelies here in 80's North Central Florida. A huge percentage of the population is non native because of the University so who knows where it came from.

I bought a used banana seat bike for $5 back then. Could catwalk that thing around the block.

Nick (Not-Stig) Comstock wrote: In reply to JamesMcD: Here we thought we had it all figured out and along comes JamesMcD to just add to the mystery. Maybe there is a sect of closet Canadians living in south east MO?

We're much more discreet in this day and age when invading your country, no wonder they want to build a wall on our border!

Turboeric wrote: Popping a wheelie.

East Tennessee was popping a wheelie to ride a wheelie

"He tried to pop a wheelie" or "She rode a wheelie all the way down the street"

MrJoshua wrote: Catwalk for long wheelies here in 80's North Central Florida. A huge percentage of the population is non native because of the University so who knows where it came from. I bought a used banana seat bike for $5 back then. Could catwalk that thing around the block.

Okay, that jibes with my friend as he's from Jax. We had the term on Long Island, but it was pretty obscure.