Enjoy the Ride

02 / Know

Know the Story

The original ride began with a mate I trusted.

I wrote Enjoy the Ride for Macca, my mate from Kapooka, the School of Signals and Darwin. His Army service, diesel-mechanic knowledge and years rebuilding classic motorcycles gave me a lesson worth carrying beyond the shed.

If it ain’t broke, maintain it.

Why I wrote it for Macca

Macca and I met at Kapooka, Australia’s version of boot camp, more than twenty years ago. We continued to the School of Signals and were both posted to Darwin. I was the American in the Australian Army, Macca was the Australian, and he became the mate who repeatedly pulled me out of a jam and made sure I got through it.

Twelve years later I left the service. Macca changed corps and became a diesel mechanic in Engineering before eventually leaving the Army himself. He was given a 1943 Harley-Davidson 42WLA and acquired a 1959 BMW R60, then took them down to their pieces and rebuilt them more than once.

That combination matters: I know his mechanical advice has value because I already know his character. Macca does not teach from theory or posture. He knows the machinery, respects the process and lives by a simple philosophy: ‘If it ain’t broke, maintain it.’

Enjoy the Ride is the original musical home for that philosophy. It is the warm Lowrider Soul version written for Macca himself—the lesson before I drove it toward the grittier Chicano Soul of West Coast Ride or stripped it further into the Let’s Ride versions.

Every treatment begins with Macca’s own voice: ‘Before we begin, every ride starts with discipline.’ That is not decoration. It establishes who gave me the lesson and why I believe it is worth passing on.

03 / Feel

Feel the Soul

What I want you to feel

The best mentors do more than give you an answer. They explain the reason, show you how to do the work and make sure you understand that the freedom at the end was built by the discipline at the beginning.