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Yeah, i've read sheldon saying it's fine fixed, if you do it up tight enough. You can get QRs HELLISHLY tight, so tight i had to remove my seatpost and use it as a lever to get undone after a puncture once. (but of course sheldon does not condone brakeless riding under any circumstance, let alone with a QR skewer which is undoubtedly inferior to tracknuts)
With a chaintug, (surly, which you can buy from condor), you'll be fine. you only really need one on the driveside.
RE: running myself over - I really have no idea. The backwheel was shifted so much it came off, i smacked myself in the gut with the stem, found myself lying in the road underneath my front wheel, with my rear wheel rolling towards the thames. I also hard a tyre mark all the way down my left leg ending in a nasty cut on my ankle. No idea how.
^^ early days of making my own bikes. Haha.