just gotta love that...
having had broken clutch cables many times...
funnest one was when I let my (now ex) wife, ride my KZ1000 to "work"... she was a fairly decent rider, raised well in a "bike" family... anyways, her first "solo" run on this bike was after she spent a half hour getting "geared up", in her "biker outfit", and after hearing the bike "start", and rev, and I fell back asleep.. a half hour later (after she struggled to get out from underneath the bike, that she dropped on herself, ) and came in with one boot missing, I went out, stood the bike up, and told her to get going... 10 minutes later, the phone rang, she popped the clutch cable en route to work like 5 miles from home.. and convinced some little old lady to let her use the phone... (wayyyyy before we all had cell phones).. so I grabbed the "vice grips", jumped in my El Camino, and set off to "find her"... gave her my truck... (now she looked really dumb, dressed in "leather girl/biker mode") and off she went, while I did the old "vice grip cable wrap and clamp/manual pull thing-a-ma-jigger" to get the bike home.. ahhh great memories..
I think in the dozen or so "broken clutch cables" I've had, that was the best of them, tieing a cable end to a stick, reversing a cable to use, pliers and cursing mode many times... all worked out ok.. oh, and "pop top" (old time ring pull cans) on a broken throttle cable were utilized many times also, as were sticks, and even discarded chicken bones found on the roadside, to make a "puller/Tee" handle..