So if RD wins the TT WC using whatever he plans on using, then what moving forward? If its just a skin suit and wheels or maybe bars too, that should be able to be worked out easily enough, but if its a different frame (as it sounds like), I can't see how that can be worked out.
When not every bike company had a TT bike everyone rode stickered up Litespeed, Cervelo, custom, but now everyone has TT rigs (at the top level). Is he just covering the stickers on his old BMC?
RD should have fresh legs, but will they be good legs? Maybe Davesta is correct that he just needed to get his head reset.