Tickets are really $46.66 per day - with an absurd $11.66 service charge added onto the base charge of $35.00. The band lineup sounded OK until you realize they are spread over three days. None of them are what I would consider a "headliner," they are small stage "B" bands at a real music festival. For your $46.66 you will get to swelter on an asphalt island in what is still an industrial neighborhood, access to a "flea market" (ie vendors selling Chinese made junk) in an area where you will have to purchase all your food and drink at jacked up festival prices.

The Pro Cycle Challenge was something very special, a little bit of Tour de France in Colorado. It was 10,000 people on top of Independence Pass, where it took nearly an hour for all the riders to pass through, running alongside the riders, waving national flags, shaking cowbells and having a great, FREE, time.

The Colorado Classic is just a commercial enterprise looking to cash in on the bike community.