Well, before I bought my motobecane, I was riding around on an ooooooold schwinn 10 speed, and mostly stayed on the big chainring, that had like 50+ something teeth on there. Since I rarely shifted thats one reason why I wanted to try a fixed. I went from pushing 55ish teeth to pushing 46, I guess I spoiled myself with the schwinn, or the opposite...

But since I can no longer coast, I figure I'd probably be better to have something no so huge on my chainring. I'm not trying to win the hour or anything like that, just riding to work.
But the car traffic is awful here, so I want something that'll let me keep up with the pace as much as humanly possible.

Also..
So basically what you're saying is the bigger the chainring, and/or the smaller the cog, then the more mashy it gets?
I tried to play with those gear inch calculator sites and what not, but I'm just awful at math.

Thanks for the tips!