I had the brass keeper pulled off the throttle cable on a Sunday three hrs from home on my 57 Matchless, all I could do was stop and get a pair of vise grips and a hose clamp to get me home. I'm always looking at the cables now. Guys I ride with made a little fun of me cause when we stopped for a break I always walked around my bike then there's looking for things that needed fixing. One guy said he had a noise he could not find and I pointed out he had two screws loose on his trunk mount, he tighten them down and the next break he said the noise was gone.