Well if there's anything I can do to help, let me know! serious.
Lost title is a uh... "cramp"
If you have no title, but the bike was registered to the last owner in kansas as well, no big deal, provide previous owner info and yours and 35 bucks later, VOILA.
If you live in kansas and you buy something that was registered in another state before the title was lost, put on some really high boots, cause you're wading through some SH1T.
After you finally find a previous owner, you pay 35 bucks to get the old one, than you have to send it in again with a bill of sale signed and notarized. Then you pay something like 17 dollar processing fee, back registration (which you can say it hasn't been running or in pieces and they'll wave some of) and then you get to pay to have to pay to have the current registration and the inspection which is something under 20 bucks.
So, money isn't the huge thing, but the hoops are treacherous.
This is why my Corrado never got legal. haha