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67" (46x18) for LEL. I may take the 17T Miche sprocket (for a 71" gear) for the first 500km as it's reasonably flat. I did Putney to Thorne in October on 67" and could have gone faster with a longer gear.
I'll have a better idea in a month as I'm doing London to Edinburgh in 3 days to familiarise myself with the LEL route (day 1 is 330km from Putney to Thorne, day 2 is 200km to Alston via Coxwold, Middleton Tyas and Yad Moss, and then day 3 to Edinburgh via Canonbie, Innerleithen and Dalkeith). If the weather is shit on the 15th-17th of March then it's all my fault.
Will be going for PBP in 2011. Longest ride so far is only 630km so LEL will be the first proper long one. Plenty of other 1200km rides too (Madrid-Gijon-Madrid, Boston-Montreal-Boston, Great Southern Randonee, Rocky Monutain, Gold Rush Randonee, etc)
Please do! The little hills south of Brickendon would be the perfect place for it too.