Well, first of all, don't worry to much. There is not a manufacturer out there that has not had a frame break before. The guys who started Litespeed have actually been working with titanium since the first days of the skunk works airforce program. Litespeed built a couple of frames for us back in the early nineties, and I broke one of them, it was fixed in like a week. Just call them up, they're warranty should take care of everything.