Originally Posted by chaadster

my first action is going to be reaching over to the DS with my "good" hand (that's a Scary Movie 2 reference, but I mean my right hand) and flip the brake release.

At that point, it seems to make sense to me to just continue going down the fork leg and throwing open the skewer, so that's why I put mine there. I just like having the brake release and skewer on the same side, I guess.