The first time I did a wheelie on my KR was trying to ride it home by pulling the throttle cable after it had broken!

Keep an eye on how much oil you go through after you fit the new cable. I found that you sometimes need to get the oil pump adjusted to compensate for the new cable. It's easy to know when this happens - you start burning oil at a hell of a rate and the bike smokes like a tractor everywhere you go.