[Darren69]

Originally Posted by Flip

I would say something odd has gone on with the choke arrangement in the past by a previous owner for whatever reason, as the others have said a '97 900 should have it mounted between the switchgear and the clutch lever/mirror bracket like so:



As an aside, I have never had either the choke or throttle cables brake in my bikes' twenty two years.
Perhaps if it is regularly doing so then it is routed wrongly and maybe rubbing somewhere it shouldn't?

I'm the same I've never had a throttle or choke cable break and never had to replace one. I've had my 748 since 2000 and my S4 2008. Same with the 750 and 900 SS I had before those.

Speedo cables broke a couple of times on those old SS bikes and neutral switches used to fail regularly too and rectifiers come to think of it. I think all of those are quite common issues and just annoying. The quality has improved on those components so they don't fail so regularly on the newer bikes

Maybe your cables aren't routed properly? That would be my guess too.