| I tried jumping my bike and I think I blew something
If it sparked you had a bad ground.
You had the car running....very bad move.
Cars (and bikes) have a floating ground (rubber tires are non conductive). The voltage (Potential difference) between the bike and car can be thousands of volts. 12V sits 12 volts above ground ON THAT VEHICLE. With the vehicles not running, when you hook the cables up, the grounds should be at the same level. If you have the car running, ground is floating anywhere it likes. When you hooked up the ground to the bike it SHOULD have been at the same ground as the car, but because you had a bad connection it could have been anywhere. Sooooo, you could have put thousands of volts through the bike's positive circuit. Probably not, but potentially you could have.
You could have fried any or all of the following:
Starter fuse, reg/rec, battery, ignition, wiring, ECU, instrument cluster.
The good news is that USUALLY, you just blow a fuse.
Got a multimeter? Start using it. Check the battery first for 12V across the terminals, then go from there.
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