Green’s Dictionary of Slang

treadly n.

also deadly treadly/treddly, treddly
[SE treadle, which one ‘peddles’]

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[Aus]Aus. Word Map 🌐 treadly [...] ‘We also called a bike a treddly or deadly-treddly growing up in the '60s on the Mornington Peninsula Victoria’ [...] ‘I’m from S[outh] A[ustralia]. We spelt it "Treadly" not "Treddly" and a "Deadly treadly" was an old fixed wheel bike that had no handbrakes’.