Went out for a bimble on the old honda cx500 this evening and whizzing along at about 80 having a grand old time then "ping" the throttle cable snapped.
As Sod's law dictates it decided to snap on a main road, in the middle of nowhere, in the dark just as its starting to piddle down.
Luckily it's got a decent toolkit in the top-box complete with an emergency cable repair kit however unluckily the topbox was on my workbench at home as I'd had to remove it to repair the luggage rack and hadn't got around to refitting it DOH.

so iv just got home having traveled the better part of 8 miles on engine tickover in 2nd gear at about 6mph.
Did I mention the dark,main road and the rain?
funfun.