Longtime Colorado snow rep Ray “Head” Lang died while competing at the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships in Tennessee on Tuesday the 29th.

According to the Denver Post:
Wheat Ridge amateur motocross racer Ray Lang died Tuesday after an American Motorcyclist Association event at country star Loretta Lynn’s ranch.

The 40-year-old Lang went airborne from a jump and bumped another rider during a race. Humphreys County Coroner Dr. Richard Jackson said Lang landed on a shoulder blade and died of overwhelming chest injuries at Three Rivers Hospital, about 50 miles west of Nashville.

Jackson said the other rider wasn’t aware of the accident until after the race was stopped.

In May, Lang finished second in the amateur senior division at a regional qualifier at Lakewood’s Thunder Valley.

Lang was participating in the 27th Air Nautiques/AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships, which has been called the largest motocross race in the world.

“He just loved living life and having a good time,” Lang’s mom, Jackie Lang, told the Marietta (Ohio) Times, her hometown newspaper.

The Tackledbox had this to say about Lang:

“Ray or “Head” as we called him, was a long time Colorado Snowboard Rep. We met him way back when he started with this little Canadian brand called Never, later to become Option. He sold Gillie Stix, Bat Waves, Soupkitchen, Arbor, Special Blend, GMC/Defcon, Split, Fox, Business Bindings, Flow and Alpenstar thru the years.”

Tentative plans are for Lang’s body to be cremated with a service Monday evening at Cawley & Peoples on Front Street in his home town of Marietta, OH.

Rest in peace man.

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