It's a smooth ride, very comfortable. Its the sort of bike that you connect with and after a while she just disappears beneath you. The handling is as you would expect from a tourer. She'll hold a line with no twitchiness regardless of how much you load her up or even if you tow a trailer. A racing bike she is not; turns are a very deliberate act but once she's established on a line through a turn she'll just ride herself around. The trade off is a bit of reluctance to change lines mid corner, probably thanks to the long chainstays.

I did a 65 mile a day round trip commute for a couple of years back when I didn't have kids. Around 2 hours each way, all on the LHT, all very enjoyable miles. My super stiff aluminum road bike would have killed me after a week on that commute. I also did a 45 mile round trip commute for a short time which included a short cut I discovered - a couple of miles of singletrack next to a creek. The LHT was always rock steady, even in hardtain mountain bike terrain, with loaded panniers.