R.I.P. Phil Alderton

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RACEGUY 3/9/2012 2:40pm
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Addiction most certainly is an illness.
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Camp332 3/9/2012 2:47pm
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RACEGUY wrote:
Addiction most certainly is an illness.
Yes it is.
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IceMan446 wrote:
Damn. RIP Phil.

Wasnt he trying to get back into the sport recently?

Condolences to his family and loved ones.
I thought the same thing.
Wasn't he helping Kilbarger re-start the HOT team a 2-3 years ago?
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yz763 3/9/2012 3:15pm
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This is terrible! I had the opportunity to meet Phil at the Troy dealership way back in the day. My dad and I were checking out helmets. We must have casually bullshit for an hour about nothing. Good dude that got suckered into addiction.

R.I.P. Phil

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Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held to your head is a "illness" or a "disease". Were I come from we call that weakness. God Speed Phil.
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RIP Phil.
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RIP
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Mstock wrote:
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held...
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held to your head is a "illness" or a "disease". Were I come from we call that weakness. God Speed Phil.
When you're ill, you're weak.
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Mstock 3/9/2012 3:54pm
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Mstock wrote:
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held...
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held to your head is a "illness" or a "disease". Were I come from we call that weakness. God Speed Phil.
yz763 wrote:
When you're ill, you're weak.
I'm very sorry. Do not know much about him other than his addiction stories over the years. Did he have health issues also?
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Sherwood 3/9/2012 3:57pm
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Some doctors and even some professors will tell you only sick people take drugs for a reason and these people are much smarter than those that don't know this isn't the time or place for personal beliefs/attacks. Start another thread if you want to discuss those other things.
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R.I.P Flipper. Worked for the man at HOT back in 94/95. Always treated me as a member of the family. He will be missed.
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Mstock wrote:
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held...
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held to your head is a "illness" or a "disease". Were I come from we call that weakness. God Speed Phil.
^this^. However I dont feel this is the thread to talk about this. RIP Phil!
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MCfan4life 3/9/2012 4:17pm
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Sad deal. R.I.P Phil.

Nice obituary from Jody HERE
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Mstock 3/9/2012 4:21pm
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Sherwood wrote:
Some doctors and even some professors will tell you only sick people take drugs for a reason and these people are much smarter than those that...
Some doctors and even some professors will tell you only sick people take drugs for a reason and these people are much smarter than those that don't know this isn't the time or place for personal beliefs/attacks. Start another thread if you want to discuss those other things.
I sincerely apologize. I hope his family and friends find strength and healing. It sounds like he was a great man and loved moto.
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Mstock wrote:
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held...
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held to your head is a "illness" or a "disease". Were I come from we call that weakness. God Speed Phil.
You wouldn't understand unless you'd been there.Things you think you are on top of change your brain chemistry such that logic and strength are irrelevant.The fact that you can't claw your way out doesn't mean you're weak,it means you're addicted.
My sympathies to his friends and family.RIP.
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RACEGUY wrote:
Addiction most certainly is an illness.
Camp332 wrote:
Yes it is.
not to spinner...he's perfect
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Sherwood wrote:
Some doctors and even some professors will tell you only sick people take drugs for a reason and these people are much smarter than those that...
Some doctors and even some professors will tell you only sick people take drugs for a reason and these people are much smarter than those that don't know this isn't the time or place for personal beliefs/attacks. Start another thread if you want to discuss those other things.
sherwood...yer alright
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BobbyM 3/9/2012 4:43pm
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MCfan4life wrote:
Sad deal. R.I.P Phil.

Nice obituary from Jody HERE
i'd say if a man like spinner can read this and still think phil was the scourge with a weak mind..it is spinner with the problem, not people like phil alderton

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Spinner is just upset his gig at cyclenews didn't lead him to the big time.
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Phil, EIDave and myself were trying to save the HOT team a year ago ...... Phil worked very hard on this and I saw his passion for the sport.

He will be missed ..... the sport lost a true legend.
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RIP

Dude changed the face of Motocross in the early 90s...

I hate heroin, i've seen it ruin so many peoples lives...one of the worst drugs out there.
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Godspeed Flipper, the 5th Dragon will never be forgotten!!!!!
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RACEGUY wrote:
Michael Rigdon let Phil's friends know that he had slipped into a coma on February 29, as a result of a heroin overdose. He battled until...
Michael Rigdon let Phil's friends know that he had slipped into a coma on February 29, as a result of a heroin overdose. He battled until today. Alderton was, unfortunately, extremely self-destructive.
Neil Young wrote this song after one of the members of Crazy Horse overdosed.

"Needle And The Damage Done" by Neil Young


I caught you knockin'
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don't understand
Milk-blood
to keep from running out.

I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's
like a settin' sun.
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We don't need to dwell on the reason he died, (seriously) we need to just be respectful and send our condolences, and perhaps a memory or two that some may have of Phil.

Godspeed Phil Alderton.
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Billmx09 3/9/2012 6:23pm
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I rode with Phil from the time I started riding back in the 70's. He was truely an awesome guy. He will be deeply missed. R.I.P. Flipper...
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Billmx09 wrote:
I rode with Phil from the time I started riding back in the 70's. He was truely an awesome guy. He will be deeply missed. R.I.P...
I rode with Phil from the time I started riding back in the 70's. He was truely an awesome guy. He will be deeply missed. R.I.P. Flipper...
Thanks for that Bill. You have any cool stories about him you care to share?
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RIP my Moto brother.....

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Worked with Flipper when I was at Husqvarna and saw him many times throughout the times, my condolenses to his family, great guy and unbelievably passionate about the sport.
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TerryK wrote:
We don't need to dwell on the reason he died, (seriously) we need to just be respectful and send our condolences, and perhaps a memory or...
We don't need to dwell on the reason he died, (seriously) we need to just be respectful and send our condolences, and perhaps a memory or two that some may have of Phil.

Godspeed Phil Alderton.
Well said Terry.




This was one star studded line up he had back in '95.





I loved the color scheme he had on his 95 race bikes the best also. Simple. Effective. Stylish.
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Insider347 3/9/2012 8:36pm
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Mstock wrote:
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held...
Wish his family and friends the best. I just cannot understand how making a personal decision to put something into your body without a gun held to your head is a "illness" or a "disease". Were I come from we call that weakness. God Speed Phil.
RIP and my thoughts and prayers for family and friends.

Mstock, we don't care if you understand or not but just keep it to yourself. I bet you have no weakness either. You won top honors for Dbag of the day. Go pound some salt you clown!

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