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Originally Posted by
Illumaniti777
could somebody explain to me why after I took the gear cables out that its suddenly easier to ride with the chain on the largest sprocket(in the rear) instead of the smallest one? .
Whether you have the Wires in place or not, the way gear ratios work means that big rear sprocket and/or small front chainring is a low/easy gear. And a small rear sprocket and/or a big front chainring is a high/heavy gear.
Riding on the big rear has ALWAYS been the easy option.
The way almost all front derailers work is that they are spring-loaded to go to the small ring. So if you unhook the cable to the front derailer it will default into the low gear range.
Most rear derailers are spring-loaded in the opposite functional direction - they default to a high-normal. But Shimano did build some low-normal ones called RapidRise several years ago.