Alright, so I'm new to this forum and just happened on it by chance an it sounds like the perfect place to ask for some help!

Anyhow, I'll be graduating from college at the end of the year and have for the longest time been wanting to do a RTW trip, but the cost of staying in Europe for 3 months followed by the Middle East, Asia, Australia and NZ seems to be out of the question so I've changed my mind and I've settled on trying to plan something that I hope is possible.

What I want to do is motorcycle Asia, well China more specifically. My plan would be to fly into Tokyo, spend time in Japan, ferry to S. Korea, spend time there, then ferry once more to mainland China (Qingdao), on mainland China is where I'd purchase a motorcycle, I've heard the Minsk is a favorite (at least in S.E. Asia), and then I'd want to drive from Qingdao up to Beijing then down through Shanghai to Fuzhou where I can catch a ferry to Taiwan, come back a few days later, hop on the bike and continue down to HK and Macau.

The problem I run into is the fact that I know nothing about doing this logistically? I've been to China once before in the past (Beijing, Shanghai, Xian) but it was when I was rather young; but I don't know anything about fuel prices, or if there are even the roads to allow this?

I'm clearly looking for an adventure and I know there will be fix-it costs, spontaneous costs etc. but it seems that this will still end up being far cheaper than entire trip around the globe, and more adventurous to boot. I also see this as being a bit shorter. I've got essentially an unlimited amount of time, so it's not the biggest of problems, but I'm still unsure of how long I'd like to go for, and was wondering if anyone had done anything similar about how long it took them? I'd be looking to stay in each of the major cities for roughly a week to two weeks.

I'm just getting my feet wet in the planning but figured this looks like a hell of a place to ask this question as it seems to be on par with what this is all about!

Thanks for all the help in advance adventurers!