[Jeff Higgins]

I picked up one of those brochures on one of my trips to PIR where he displayed one of his bikes. I might even still have it, somewhere...

Your experience pretty much matches the impression I had, in that he would build a guy a bike, so long as the guy had a bike he could start with. I'm not sure he ever built one that wasn't already spoken for, or that he had any kind of "inventory" of finished bikes even if they were just on paper waiting to be built. I think maybe in the beginning he was buying bikes, fixing them up, and selling them. By the time I had heard of him, however, I'm pretty sure the customer had to come with his own bike.