I had a Lynskey built up without ever test riding it, and it came out fabulous.

I had a semi-custom build, in that the dealer took the measurements off my current road bike (which fit me pretty well) and had them transferred more-or-less onto a Lynskey R230 frame using their "houseblend custom" program.

So it's not an off-the-shelf frame, but it's not one of their "pro builds" where they start from scratch and build up a bike to someones exact specs either, it's sort of in-between.

It's a big difference from my fairly heavy steel Riv - much lighter weight, and it's very easy to get up to speed.

I wrote about getting my first impressions here:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=29763

I hope you like your Lynskey as much as I like mine.