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I did that with The Big Red One, for about an evening.
I got the bike free, liked it, but bits started breaking and I couldn't be bothered to fix them because I'd planned a strip-down and rebuild. So I'd been running it in toppestmost gear for ages after the gear cable snapped and I got to like it.
So then I decided to remove the drag from old deraileurs, shorten the chain etc. and took it for a test ride.
Which was when I found the chain line wasn't quite perfect.
I found that out, because the bike tried to skip down a gear, larger cog, no room from the newly-shortened chain, that pulled the not-completely-tightened-to-death rear wheel across til it rubbed on the inside of the chainstay and stopped dead, with me standing up, full weight on the pedal at the time.
And then the chainring folded. :-(