I know that feeling. Its awful. Same thing happened to me last year. My 75 cb550k was stolen from the alley of the place I was living at. I thought before I even called the cops I was never gonna see it again.
2 months later I get a call from the impound, and I was overjoyed. way better than the time my buick was stolen, for all I cared that car could rot in the impound, but I was more than happy to pay the impound fee and get my bike back all #$%*ed up.
cops stopped a juvenile pushing it down the sidewalk at 3AM on a sunday 10 blocks from where it was taken. I suppose the battery fried up on him after he had:
A) hotwired the ignition switch
B) blown the fuse for the lights and replaced it with a bolt
C) burned out the lights and the wiring to them.
The mirrors where broken the licence bracket was all bent to hell as well as my plate, the front brake lever was broken , the left sidecover missing, the aftermarket 4-2 exhaust still has a hole in it by the mount plate. I'm still fixing it back up, making it better than it was before, but signs of the theft still show.
the worst part was that, since the thief was a minor, cops wouldn't tell me who dunnit. probably a neighborkid. all I know is that since then, my bike has a fork lock that works, and a lock on the back wheel, even in the garage.
I'll keep my eyes peeled in Minneapolis . . .
