good grief Charlie Brown indeed.
Well, I hope that with dodging that bullet you are hopefully more thorough with checking stuff regularly--listen, we've probably all done some dumbass stuff that luckily had us dodging a bullet (I know I have), so I get it.....but sheeeesh, a loose qr??
and ya, good luck on teh bike front, you will want to get on that, or at least be at least deep into the researching phase for a cc trip bike.
oh, and 67 klicks/h on 4"ers must have made one hell of a lot of tire noise.