Originally Posted by
genec
All these years of using QR and I never noticed that... (I just went and looked at my bikes), of course my older vintage bike doesn't have such markings, but that was only one bike in my fleet. But indeed you are right, the lever says CLOSED at least on the side I looked. Meanwhile, the consumer apparently doesn't notice it either. So the key question is how do they notice lawyer lips? They can just as easily tighten the "wingnut" down on those small protrusions and essentially have a loose QR.
I'm on record saying that the lips are kludge at best. IMO premising the need on the fact that using a QR is too complex for the uninitiated, then "fixing" the problem by adding an extra step that require yet more skill and knowledge is insanity.
IMO the old system, of the adjusting nut being hard to turn on the skewer so it retains adjustment, is more reliable, and makes QR use simpler. But what we have now is an example of the saying "a camel is a horse designed by a committee".