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My P7 is 34:18 which is fine for the big road hill beind Largs. (do a Google maps run from Largs Academy to Greenock cut centre for an idea of the gradient) I'm pretty unfit at the moment so that's probably not bad for your use case. I used to rock a 39:18 single speed in Glasgow and still climb the hills on a steel bike with DH casings and tubes, I miss those days.
That seems odd. you used to be fitter but ould muscle 39:18 single speed up, yet now with less fitness admittedly, but the ability to gear down to what..0.57 is it in the hub, your running 4T less?
I used to be fit and muscled 2:1 about briefly in bristol, then in london and off road at the downs or epping forest. these days I'm not fit, and its road and the crystal palace hill is about it, its fairly short, sharpish but nothing to write home about really. even now as unfit as I am, if I stay single speed and just replace the worn out bits I was thinking of going 36:16.