Good to hear from you Stacka, I've missed your thorough, thoughtful and often insightful posts around here. Firstly, sorry to hear you've been buggered up. But you implied you're on the mend so hopefully better times ahead!
As for your bike, it's sounds like there is a short somewhere. Try pulling one of the battery connections and put a multi-meter between the battery terminal and the connection you took off. See if you get a voltage reading across there and if you do, you have a short somewhere. If you don't then we'll discuss plan 'B' (whatever that is
).
