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Ate you still talking about the Escapade? The fork is thru-axle because they've moved on from their old design of having disc callipers in front of the right fork leg. Their rationale was to direct the braking reaction forces up into the dropout. The new all enclosed dropout allows a normal calliper positioning and still stops an insufficiently tight QR being moved down by any particularly hard braking efforts.
You can use the forks with normal QR if you want, take out the skewer and manhandled the dropouts over the ends of the axle. The steel is springy enough to make it easy.