My wife and I both have Rivendell Atlantis' and love them. Couldn't be more happy.

The ride is unlike anything we had ever experienced before... the look of the cycle, stunning.

The price... very inexpensive when you consider you're getting a 2-toned, fully lugged, handmade, limited production-just 400 made per year frameset with an Ultegra threaded headset and all the brazed on fixin's for touring for $1300.00?!?! That's dirt cheap in my book.

Yes, you can get a LHT and yes, it might be very similar in the fact that QBP copied Grant's geometry on the Atlantis BUT...

It's not a Rivendell, not an Atlantis, not lugged, not limited to a handmade run of 400 per year, not available with 2 tone paint and not as pretty by a million miles.

Just my opinion... and yes, if I had an extremely limited budget and there was NO way I could EVER save up enough scratch... I'd buy the LHT too but however I'm also a fan of, "Where there's a will... there's a way". So I say-

Buy The Atlantis!! You'll be more happy in the long run.