TJ, yes I know, I’ve tried your experiment myself ages ago when Annan started describing the phenomenon. It made me check my QRs. I can’t see how in the real world it describes anything like a circumstance one might find ones-self in.
No one is disagreeing that a loose QR and disc brakes can be a dangerous combination, but if it demonstrated anything, the court case demonstrated that it wasn’t as simple a case of a loose QR, as I posted on the bike thread, the independent technical witness summed it up eloquently when he said:
As to why Russ could have ridden many miles (and indeed the very trail of the accident at least 10 times) without the wheel coming out, the witness said that whilst the theoretical sequence could be defined it was only in a combination of many complex factors (many of which he believed were either not able to be identified yet, or if they are not adequately explained) acting in exactly the right manner that the very unfortunate sequence could occur in real life.