Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Why?
Are they expected to foresee that someone would ride with the QR open and instead if the wheel falling off as one might expect, there'd be this freak accident?
I don't know. Freak accident isn't a term that I'd use.
The problem of bikes with front discs shedding their front wheels is hardly new. I was aware of it over a decade ago. I have personally test ridden a bike with a QR skewer that I myself installed which shed the front wheel with only moderate frong disc use. In that particular case I resolved the issue by using a Shimano QR with the enclosed style mechanism. If I were designing the bike, I think that I'd put the brake caliper on the front of the fork blade so the brake force would push the axle into the dropout.