How I rebuilt my Grom's front end after someone gutted it overnight

Mine got hit in a campus parking garage during finals week, so I feel this thread. Someone took my front wheel skewer and my throttle assembly and slashed the clutch cable on the way out, probly out of spite when they couldn't get the bars off fast. What saved me was that my school had a ride share board and a guy parting out a 125 sold me his whole front end wiring section for sixty bucks, connectors still attached. I traced the colors with a multimeter and it plugged right into where mine had been cut.

On the wiring side I'd say check if a salvage or part-out seller has the section you need before you start splicing a dozen wires. Soldering in the garage at night was my backup plan but the pigtail swap took me under an hour. If you do splice, stagger the joints so the finished bundle isn't fatter than the stock loom or the sleeve won't zip tie back in place.

For the brake bleed, I could never get the one-man kit to work on my little bike. A friend held the lever pinned and I cracked the banjo bolt, we did that three times and it was rock solid. Crude but it worked.

After all that I bought a $40 no-name camera off a used marketplace site and zip tied it under my balcony facing the street. It caught a delivery guy bouncing off my mirrors two months later, so at least I know it works.

Similar story on my end, some kid snapped the ignition switch clean off my Grom trying to jack it in broad daylight. The bars survived but the plug was mangled. What actualy got me thru the wiring was a pack of heat shrink butt connectors with the adhesive lining, the kind you shrink with a heat gun. Regular twist and tape joints failed on me twice before that, one came apart from vibration and the bike woud randomly cut out at stoplights. With those connectors everything held for the two more years I rode it. Also grab a cheap inline fuse holder if the thieves cut near the main fuse, saved me from cooking the whole harness when my first splice shorted.

First post here, long time lurker, sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place. My situation was a bit diffrent, my Grom was parked at a train station lot and someone just ripped the whole front brake lever off the perch instead of stealing the bars. I thought the lever itself was toast but the replacement was like fifteen bucks and swapped in ten minutes, so before buying anything used it might pay to check if it's just the lever and not the whole control. Also on the insurance side, my comprehensive claim covered the vandalism with no deductible drama, worth a call to whoever you're insured with before spending your own money. Did yours have the ignition wiring touched at all? That's the part I'd be most nervous about splicing myself.