Beijing-Xi'an-Beijing

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As Inner Mongolia turns out to be too cold for october holidays (I've been around Hohhot by car this weekend and I really regret it's too late to go), I'd like to go for 9 days trip south to Xi'an and return. I did only 1200km on my bike so far and its my first vehicle but I'm planning to do 3000km. I'm trying to read as many posts on MCM as possible but the time is running. I'd like to have different route on the way back, and get as many corners in the mountains as possible. As I don't have years of experience with bikes like many MCM users I'd be very grateful for your advice in any matter from gear, nice roads, places to see, bike preparation and others. I will try to master my google maps skills by ChinaV's post and get the usb plug in my bike. I'm ordering some things on taobao, most of them that i saw in MCM treads. With my poor chinese it might be a bit irresponsible trip, but hopefully on new bike everything will go well.
Looking forward to hear from you
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Of course it would be amazing if someone is planning to do similar trip