Had a throttle cable snap on my 04 16,000 miler the other day (9.45pm, middle of deepest darkest Wales), which was a bit of a shock as I've never had a problem with any of the 3 gen 1's I've owned up to now.
 
I definately sit on the mechanically inept side of the do-you-own maintenance fence, but sourced a new cable, took the tank off and was confronted by a mass of cables, pipes etc and when consulting the Haynes manual, they say to replace the cables I have to 'displace' the carbs?
 
Is this a hard job, and do the carbs need any special setting-up once they been 'displaced' and new cables fitted? I'm thinking of letting a 'professional' do it for me, but wondered if anybody here had any views?