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I'm working on a problem here, and a bit of digging about has raised a few questions. Problem - some scrote tried to steal my bike, and broke the ignition barrel casting. (they smacked the bars round to break the steering lock, but then discovered the disk lock and gave up). Problem - Yamaha...

Has anyone else had an issue where you put the key in and turn the ignition on start the bike and later realize that your indicators are not working (possibly other stuff like brake lights)? Twice now this has happened and it turns out the ignition is not turned fully to the right say about...