Originally Posted by
onbike 1939
While I would never file these off on someone else's bike I admit that it's the first thing I do with any new bike of mine. It completely negates the whole point of having QR clamps.
True and I loathe the things too but I've learned to live with them for the above reasons.
One type of fork they should NEVER be filed off of is one used with disc brakes, particularly if the dropouts aren't specifically designed for disc use. Disc brakes tend to force the wheel down and out of conventional dropouts and wheel ejection was a problem when discs first appeared.