Rodent Damage on my newly acquired CB750 F2 SuperSport

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I'll keep it short and sweet.

New(to me) bike, I've had it about 30 hours.
I spent a good hour today getting ready to do an oil change and give the bike a once over to learn all it's secrets.
I took out the air filter remains(shredded and bedded by rats). and went around to the other side to see if i could remove the whole air filter box so i could wash out the rodent dung heaps and found that several wires are chewed through. most are easy to follow to their sources but 2 are chewed down to nubs and i have no idea where the rest of the wires went so i really have no idea what got disconnected.
I present to you gents,
Picture of Things 1 & 2
---Update---
Figured out that the red and yellow wires were once somehow connected together. Dont ask me how or why they are different colors, but I went out to one of my many spares in my new collection and the 2 are connected(see 2nd photo)
The different colors threw me off.
Bitters are now on the shopping list.
 

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Sorry I don’t have an answer for you because I’m a newbie 750c owner like you. But I assure you that you are not alone with rodent problem. These are a couple pictures to give you a omg smile 😂
Good luck storm
Paul
 

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Sorry I don’t have an answer for you because I’m a newbie 750c owner like you. But I assure you that you are not alone with rodent problem. These are a couple pictures to give you a omg smile 😂
Good luck storm
Paul
I should have taken a picture of my air filter box before cleaning it out. i had to use a shop vac and a pressure washer to get everything out.
 
My bike lives outside in a campground in the eastern Sierra's under a cover during the summer. Been like this for 2 years with no rodent problems. This summer, one of my boys brought his bike (a Yamaha Super Tenere) over and left it at my place for a month while he was on vacation. It was parked totally on the opposite side of my campsite under a cover that was way too big and dragged the ground.
When he returned, he came up to retrieve his bike. When he pulled the cover off, he caught a mouse coming out of his tank bag. After he rode it, he parked it next to my bike for a week before he could come up with his trailer and pick it up. The next time I rode my bike, I noticed that my phone charger had quit working. Figuring that I had somehow blown a fuse I took the seat off to access and repair it. I found instead that a rodent had been up underneath the seat nibbling on the wire to the phone charger. I blamed the kid for parking his bike close to mine and attracting them.
 
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