I would have the same thoughts. Bike Works is good about 'using all of the buffalo' but some things are just too much for them to appropriately deal with, and this was an understandable case. Quite fortuitous that the frame and myself (to say nothing of Dfrost's ownership and speaking well of his Marinoni) crossed paths. An honest question for me, and a hard one at that, would be if the frame was a 23" or smaller (aka far outside my size), what would I have done? Tough choice, but I think I would have saved the frame and then mulled over the next move after getting it home. Certainly wouldn't have built it up. Glad I didn't have to make the tough decision!