Vandalised 2010 CBF125 - fully severed electricals

[rewkero]

I'm relatively new to motorbiking, I've been on my 125 since Jan this year. The most technical thing I have had to do so far is remove the back wheel to fix a puncture, and re-attach/re-align it again afterwards!

The night before last my bike was vandalised and all of the electrical cables I could see had been clipped through. the ones leading into the electric start module, the wires leading to the horn, the wires leading down into the engine block. There was also a lot of coke poured over it which has dried in a nasty sticky brown mess. Aside from the general clean up I am going to need to give it, is there any information anyone can provide with regard to re-wiring it all?

My reason for wanting to fix it myself is that my insurance excess is £400 and I was hoping that doing some wiring wouldn't amount to such a sum. I informed the police of the matter and have to wait for a few days before someone can come and take a statement, so I cannot start work until after then. If the speculation is that it is going to be too expensive to try and fix myself or excede £400 in cost then i will have to go via the insurers, but I'm very pro learning how to fix my bike myself and value the opportunity to get hands on with it.

Thank you in advance for any help or advice anyone can give me on this issue and hopefully once this issue has been resolved my future posts will be a little more up tempo!

Cheers all.

P.S. I took plenty of photos which i can try to compress and upload if anyone would care to see.
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[Fisty]

If the wires have been simply snipped then just re solder them together and heatshrink them.

Pictures would be helpful. Try using photobucket to upload them.
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[jeddy11]

Asshats why the feck people do this shite ? out of work scum bags got nothing better to do ? prolly cut the wires with the knives they carry ..
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[Lord Percy]

I have to agree that it's absolutely fucking ridiculous for someone to do such a thing. At what point in British/World history did it become ok for someone to destroy something for the sheer fucking hell of it.

Anyway, I'm no professional but surely the wires are all colour coded so you can reconnect them with relative ease? Strip them a bit, solder each individual one back to its respective piece, then maybe wrap some electrical insulation tape around each one.

I'm about to start a college course in London. It's an evening course and I'm shit-scared of my bike being vandalised over the 3 hours it's parked outside the college. It's about 500m from Waterloo station so not exactly a dodgy area as far as I know, but still, the darkness of an evening could bring any kind of wanker onto the street! Hmmm... might have to upgrade my insurance to fully comprehensive...

[Matt-]

If it's just the case of a cut you can re join them by

1 - Re solder and heat shrink as above. ( Best way )

2 - If you don't have a solder tool or heat shrink use terminals,
you can buy joining kit's from most hardware store's, you will need wire cutter's, terminals ( female and male ) , electrical tape this would be more of a temp way around things.

If you are stuck not knowing where the wire's go and colors are confusing you, download a manual or buy one.

Hope this help's buddy and good luck

Matt
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https://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss182/hmmmnz1/Honda/cbf125COLOUR.jpg


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[Matt-]

And their you go ^
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[rewkero]

Thanks for an overwhelming response everyone. as requested, here are some of the photos I took of the damage.

https://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj558/rewkero/36d51eed.jpg

https://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj558/rewkero/c1865b11.jpg

https://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj558/rewkero/f863a432.jpg

https://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj558/rewkero/7fafa6eb.jpg

https://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj558/rewkero/301898d6.jpg

The cables severed down near the engine block worry me the most because there isn't much left to re-attach to.
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[nowhere.elysium]

They even cut the horn wires?
There's nothing there that'll be impossible to solder back together, although it is now quite firmly entrenched in ballache territory.

You only really need to expose a couple of mm at each end of the severed wire to be able to solder it back together properly, so don't go wild stripping back all the insulation you can find. If you don't have any heatshrink, pvc tape will do, but it won't hold on particularly well - ideally, you want to heatshrink the exposed connection, and then wrap it in self-amalgamating tape.

Just be slow and methodical, and it'll be fine.
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[Codemonkey]

What utter scumbags, hope they suffer a long slow painful death

Might be worth getting some solder sleeves to fix things, something like these:

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/solder-sleeves/2027782/

They're basically a bit of solder & flux in a heat shrink tube, you strip a bit of insulation off each wire, stick them in the solder sleeve, then use a hot air gun (pain stripper) to shrink the heatshrink tube and solder the joint all in one go.

They come in lots of sizes for different diameter wires and are very easy to use (practice with a bit of scrap wire first to see how they work).
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[thomp1983]

[dungbug]

Scumbags.

I guess the only saving grace is that they didn't kick it over when they were done & damage the fairings/slash seat/snap off mirrors etc. Still a f*cker though.

As others have said re-solder each wire & use a shrink wrap sleeve, you might need to add some extra wire in a few places as it looks like you haven't got much spare wire to play with. All do-able though, plenty of tea and some patience.
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[Codemonkey]

There's a video here showing just how easy it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24FjjIVpk9U&feature=related

The glue at each end of the tube seals the joint making it waterproof as well, they were originally designed for the aviation industry so are pretty good and reliable.
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