What's your favourite gear ratio?

I find 48 x 16 too spinny :( anything below 48 x 14 on 700c (90") seems spinny.

My acceleration off the line (lights and so on) is not the fastest (but not bad) and I need to be steaming along to get up steep hills :( but boy can you get up some dreadful speed on 48 x 14 and a decent pair of legs on London's flat streets ! :)

All this talk of what is and is not right for various terrain doesn't really take all the factors in, like leg length, strength, short twitch to long twitch muscle ratio (we all differ by a fair amount - certainly more than a cog or two) even crank length (leverage). Building and riding a very light machine will also impact on acceleration, stopping and so on.

Just have a fixed filp hub. Big gear to make you feel like a man and a smaller one to be human!!