This thread made me think about some of the TE members who I have met and ridden with, who no longer post. In 2005-2007 I led a Labor Day ride. One year there were like 10 people! I remember a lunch on a cold late fall day at the Friutlands in Harvard... someone gave me a pair of mountain bike shoes, free! I wonder how Massbike Babe is doing?
I've eaten breakfast with Veronica and her DH, met Mimi and Salsa for lunch in Seattle, seen SheFly and Wavedancer do a cross race, done a 50 mile hilly ride from Great Barrington to Chatham, NY to meet Bleecker St (Lisa, where are you???), and then there was that field trip to the Arcadian Shop for the Ibex sale... where my DH spent more on wool than 3 women combined. I've met SheFly for many cups of coffee, and of course, Hirakukibou, whom I pretty much ride with once a week.
It does seem amazing. Some of my friends from the real world always question that I am meeting people that I know "from the Internet." I always tell them that so far, I haven't met any deranged cyclists.