History

I lived in Vail in the mid-1980’s and was lucky to see two stages of the Coors Classic: A criterium in Vail Village, and a mountain stage that finished at Copper Mountain. My records are fuzzy, so the date is +/- a year, which is barely rounding error these days. Aside from a few of the big names, my buddies and I didn’t have much of a clue about who or what we were watching, we just knew it was cool.