A good blueprint Rohloff chainline, built by a conscientious OEM or a competent DIYer, is in any event straight to within 1mm, so I wouldn't worry overly much about that, though it does no harm to check. (To reduce errors and avoid marking the seat tube centre, measure from the far side of the seat tube to the outside of the chainring, then subtract half the seat tube diameter and also half the chainring thickness. At the rear measure from the far side of the non-power side hub flange to the outside of the sprocket and do the math in a like manner.)
I have the highest respect for KMC's chain engineering. But my standard first series Rohloff sprocket has already done 10K+ on the first side without showing much sign of wear, about half of that with a bottom bracket motor, and virtually no wear on the steel chainring either, and very economical use (compared to my history as a chain wrecker) of KMC's attractively priced X8-9x derailleur chains (because in bulk they're cheap from my supplier) so one has to hope KMC's 10K guarantee for a complete 3-unit drivetrain is very conservative, because any changeover is likely to be expensive unless the rider wears out his old sprocket, chain and chainring all at once. I expect that KMC is aiming the complete drivetrain set at OEMs.
Another note: the most popular aftermarket electric motor installation is Bafang's 8FUN bottom bracket motor, and that is so wide that a reasonable chainline can only be achieved by using a dished chainring. The Hebie in its current specs and styling fits at least one of the tooth-count options on Bafang's in-house chainrings.
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Now we come to the meat of the matter: Will Hebie make a Chainglider to fit the 1/8in wide chain and associated sprocket and chainring? After considerable experience of the Chainglider, and on mature consideration of my priorities -- concluding that clean cuffs on my pants and zero chain service are more important than sporting the latest fashion from KMC, I've decided that anything that doesn't fit the Chainglider doesn't go on my bike.
Personally, and professionally too if Hebie were to retain me as their marketing consultant, I'd say that KMC is so big and so thoroughly integrated into the OEMs, and electric bikes are going to be so big, that Hebie would be foolish to be left out. However, we have plenty of reported experience here of Hebie apparently not knowing their market and even their products too well.
The minute there is a suitable Chainglider, we can talk again.
There's a small doubt left. As you can see passim on this forum, those members who took one for the group by fitting the more expensive stainless KMC chain have not (yet?)reported vastly greater mileages than on the more common KMC chains. And nor has the X8-9x KMC chain used with a high-torque motor cut into my mileage: on the contrary, the KMC X8-9x, even used with a motor, has almost tripled my chain mileage when compared (unfairly perhaps) with the Shimano Nexus chains I used before. In short, is this new KMC drive system the answer to a question that no-one has had reason to ask? Thus the same reasoning that caused me to skip the KMC stainless chain may lead me to skip this innovation from KMC as well.
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Love hearing about new bike engineering. We're fortunate to live in interesting times, and to the Devil with the relevant Chinese curse.
