Whiteley will be running a bed and breakfast if he pushes this topic too much. Not many business people on the grid will want to deal with him if he's seen as a whiner (which, clearly.....he is). I doubt the "Gwin to Specialized" thing was done outside of legal grounds, they'd lose too much from it. The way I see it is Gwin, being Trek World Racing's penpal, wrote a letter to them from a race in Europe saying he'd like to ride with them for another few years. In other words: Get a fucking contract written up and put it under my nose or I'll stand on the corner at night and sell myself to other teams.
I reckon the deal was done well before the end of the world cup season. I have no grounds to back that but I know stuff about some stuff.
I fully expected Gwin to throw the bike on the ground mid way through his world champs run and walk off to the nearest church. The story was that his brakes failed and his run was butchered before it began. I still find it so hard to believe both brakes failed at the same time. I can honestly say that I, at punter level, can set up my brakes to be one hundred percent reliable and not fail. These teams claim to run things that are superior to what you and I can buy solely for racing purposes but brakes? You can't go to wild with brake development as it is already a bloody powerful thing to have working correctly. What is the moral of my story? I reckon Gwin had a Specialized deal in place before the world champ and had some lovers tiff with Trek over it so he binned his run to stick it up them. That again is purely a rumor I hope to start to do the rounds on forums but it still holds same scientific value.
For what it's worth, I hope Troy beats him at every race and wins everything he enters. I also reckon he'd be a good prime minister or state leader at best!