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Far left: The Mackinaw Bridge is an impressive bit of engineering that links Michigan’ s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. Left, top: The Badger travels across Lake Michigan from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to Ludington, Michigan. Bring tiedowns if you have the kind of bike that falls over. Left, bottom: The Irish Harp in Niagaraon-the-Lake offers lunch and a pint and there’ s enough to do in town for an afternoon to walk it off before you ride on.
We continue down the River Road, keeping the river in sight until we leave it at Route 9 to enter wine country and make our way down the Niagara Escarpment on Mountain Road into the town of Grimsby, where I meet my brother on a BMW LT. Together we ride along rural King Street that winds up and down the escarpment, through vineyards and orchards, until we make our way to Port Dalhousie on Lake Ontario for lunch at the Kilt and Clover.
Niagara Falls draws 12 million tourists a year, mostly for the plumbing. For history buffs, picnickers and grade school classes, the main attraction is Queenston, where invading American troops were stopped in 1812 and General Isaac Brock took a musket ball for the team. But motorcyclists come for the 35-mile-long parkway that starts at Niagara-on-the-Lake and follows the Niagara River past the falls to Old Fort Erie. There are no opportunities for