Right you are, Gia.
I've met some really nice folks because of my bikes. I just met one a few days ago. He was walking his dog and stopped as he was walking past my driveway and I was leaving for a ride. He asked about the bike, the usual questions, then we started talking. Found out we had a lot in common, about the same age, former Air Force, both of us originally from the same city, mechanically inclined, and we ended up setting and talking for an hour. He's a neighbor, lives just a couple of blocks from me and we'll probably get to be good friends. If not for the bikes we would probably have never met.
Tom