Beijing-Xi'an-Beijing

[filipu]

Yeah I base my plan on the terrain map. just trying to modify the route to stay in mountains as much as possible. How many km per day is reasonable plan?

[felix]

Since this is your first big trip i'd say maybe start with 300km a day and see how you feel. Don't need to push too hard, that's when accidents happen.

When i ride i don't normally plan where i'm supposed to arrive in the evening. This takes pressure off and means you can stop wherever you want. If the roads are shitty you won't make as much mileage, if they're good you'll make more.

Be prepared to rethink your trip halfway. If you're not making enough mileage to get you to xi'an and back in 7 days then don't stress it, screw xi'an. Better to spend some quality time riding some good mountains that you may have stumbled into rather than taking shitty G roads just for the sake of making it to a point on the map.

[filipu]

good advice, I don't care about Xi'an anyway, just can't wait to ride.

[Lao Jia Hou]

+100 to what Felix says! Couldn't agree more.

[filipu]

I like extra 100km ;)
another question:

Is there any place where I could just go and buy tubes for my bike? Do I need to go to the dealer? There are some shops with scooters in my area, do you think it's worth asking them, or should I go somewhere out of 5th ring? The place where I bought my bike didn't have it. Same about spark plug

[MotoKai]

Ditto on Felix's comments, but what he forgot to mention was the exception: When you're Iron-butting to your buddy's wedding!

[filipu]

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...2f6751107e4671

It looks like I will go for the trip with Lobotomus. I've made this sketch for 6 days trip. I tried to choose roads with many corners, different way back of course. 2000km for 6 days, should be ok. The target are this nice bends of the yellow river. I didn't even look yet at the photos in this area. Someone wrote before that as long as we stay in the mountains its nice. Any suggestions from people who've been there? How can I add this map to be visible in the window?
cheers

[moeava]

hi a group of us will be doing a beijing-xi'an-beijing also, alot of finger crossing of course. we are going on 2 cj 750. will be leaving on the 2nd. if you wana ride together maybe, the more the merrier. my email is moeavaspr@gmail.com.
if not, good luck and be safe.