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deadly treadly


fast bicycle: I raced my friend around the park on my deadly treadly.
Contributor's comments: Used everywhere in country Victoria.

Contributor's comments: We use the term deadly treddly in Western Victoria.

Contributor's comments: We also called a bike a treddly or deadly-treddly growing up in the '60s on the Morningon Peninsula Victoria.

Contributor's comments: In SW NSW we used to call them Deadly Treddlies.

Contributor's comments: We used to call then deadly treddlies too, northern NSW though is not on your map.

Contributor's comments: WA. I've used deadly treadly often.

Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] Also known as a "deadly treadly".

Contributor's comments: My father (originally from England) used this term when we were living in Albany, Western Australia - as in 'deadly treddly'.

Contributor's comments: I heard and used treadlie for bike, most often Deadly Treadly, in Brisbane in high school in the late 70s.

Contributor's comments: I'm from SA. A "Deadly treadly" was an old fixed wheel bike that had no handbrakes.

Contributor's comments: I grew up 100km north of Adelaide where treddly, was big around 1970, in fact deadly treddly was the norm. What I did find was that this term was not recognised by anyone I met from outside SA at that time, although people did often recognise the word and say, "Oh, you're from South Australia".

Contributor's comments: This word is fairly wide spread among soldiers. It is sometimes used in the context of "deadly tredlie".

Contributor's comments: Also used in SA.

Contributor's comments: Also used in Darwin many years ago (70's) deadly treadly: "Ride my treadly to the shop."

Contributor's comments: I grew up in NE Victoria and we used the word "treadly" and "gruntwheel" for our only mode of transport. "Deadly Treadly"

Contributor's comments: I grew up with this term as a kid. It was in common use, though in WA it helps if you were born here as the POMs have no idea what I am talking about.

Contributor's comments: When I was at high school in the 60's, the phrase "deadly treadly" was used for any bicycle, not just a fast one. Actually it was sometimes used to refer to a beat up looking bike as in "Man, that's a deadly treadly".

Contributor's comments: In the 1970's the term deadly treadly was used to describe someones pushbike, if it was better than a treadly.

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Tasmania and never came across this expression - either treadly or deadly treadly. Mind you I didn't own a bicycle, but I think I would have heard the expression if it was around.

Contributor's comments: Deadly Treadlie was quite common in suburban Adelaide in the 70s and 80s.

Contributor's comments: Used in Adelaide - even recently.

Contributor's comments: A treadly refers to a bicycle and a deadly treadly is a bicycle which is considered unsafe.

Contributor's comments: Far North Qld also call pushbikes deadly treadlies.

Contributor's comments: Also used in North Queensland to describe a really cool bicycle or kiddies treadly.