Originally Posted by
elbows
But with 1st gear being direct drive, it's going to be hard to get a reasonable hill-climbing gear.
Nah,I was tossing around the idea of putting one of those on my Otis once,and did some tinkering on Sheldon's site for gearing. You can go small on your front ring and they should go up to 21T for rear sprockets for that hub. You could always go with MTB cranks and go down to some pretty small front rings.