We all know the exhilaration of sitting on a bike for the first time and knowing right there and then that everything gels. But what do the seven people that make up the core team at PRO do to make sure it gets to that point? What’s it like to design something specifically for pros like Gee Atherton or Tom Dumoulin, which eventually end up on bikes available to the general public? We sat down with Marcel Gerritsen, team leader of product development and Bas Schaapveld, product developer, to find out the answers to these questions.