I believe I played video games. Or slept. I know whatever I did with my time it certainly wasn't productive and probably didn't involve my bicycle. There are certain problems inherent with writing a tour journal two years after the fact.

Even if I hadn't succeeded in riding my bike to Beijing there was nothing stopping me from riding my bike in Beijing. For 6rmb I put it on a cargo train guaranteed to deliver my bike mere hours before my passenger train the next afternoon.