Curt, to me the real meaning of this frame has already happened learning about the needs on seat tube thickness and what reaming means. Even if they would be the most expensive tubes around, three tubes is quite a reasonable price for such a good lesson (of course, none of those tubes would be a complete lesson without places like velocipede and people like steve/drew/etc, otherwise the lesson would have arrive much later in a different shape: a broken frame with hopefully not a broken friend).