Yes, that sounds like one of the junk cables MikesXS supplies. 650Direct sells many of the same products. I had one break in the same manner after a few thousand miles. I was lucky to get that I guess, lol, but didn't feel it was good for a clutch cable. Most bikes I've owned over the years have clutch cables that last and last, literally 10s of thousands of miles. So, I contacted Mike's about it. Their response? - "A clutch cable is a wear item ...." Well, I know that, I just expected it to wear more, lol. Or to put it another way - fuck me, lol. Stuff like this was the start of me not buying hardly anything from them anymore.