Originally Posted by
thumpism
Exactly. That's the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) at work. The Schwinn clips, lawyer nubs, fork tips with recesses, the Ross safety fork tip and many other versions; all designed to keep the wheel in place when the QR skewer on a particular bike is incorrectly "closed" simply by screwing it down with the lever in the open position. Spend an hour any heavily-biked area and see how many you can spot. You might be surprised.
Those clips would have likely saved my 3 front teeth from being ground down to the nerves in 1972. The next three weeks were spent writhing in the hottest, deepest pit of dental hell. My Spanish Orbea required no such safeguards.
I'm good now, see?
