Gear inch equivalent for muni climbing

[mtnjeffe]

Within the advice many of you have given me regarding muni hill climbing it has been suggested that if you can climb it on a mountainbike you can likely climb it on a muni. This is obviously dependent on equivalent gearing.

Does anybody know if a 1:1 ratio (or 26" gear inches) on a mountainbike is a fair comparison? While the technical calculation is equivalent, given the same crank length and tire size, it would seem that balance considerations and a lack of sustained momentum (spinning) on the muni would make some other gear combination more fair for this comparison.

I would like to have a better idea of which hills I should continue to work on and which ones are just not reasonable.