It's been a long time ago, but IIRC, all I had to do was cut one cable tie on the clutch cable and it worked. I had a cable failure in 2012, that was due to the ferrule splitting and letting the cable take an extreme bend next to the handle. I ordered both a stock cable and a TransAlp cable since I was on a trip and the dealer in Montrose, where my son lived, was sure they'd get the stock cable by the Tuesday I needed to start home for Ft Morgan. I rode the bike for three days by only using the clutch to start and stop and made it to Montrose and then to the dealers. The TransAlp cable didn't get to Montrose until the day after I got to Ft Morgan, It seems like somebody else on the Forum bought it from me and paid shipping from Montrose to their location.