If cycling is anything like golf...pro standard is unobtainable for most people period.

A good single figure golfer is light years away from scratch ie playing with no shots. The difference between scratch and pro...more light years.

How good you get in any sport these days is down too genetics the age you started and how much you are prepard to scrifice the rest of your life in the pursuit of excellence in one field.

Most pro golfers would have gone round in par in their early teens. I am making an assumption...most pro cyclists would have been special in their early teens.

Of course there is being pro and being "pro"!!