oh that cheap, does that include the controls?

Controls? You mean the arm rest pads? If you look at the picture you get everything that is not "greyed out".

https://www.performancebike.com/shop/...tegory_ID=5255

no, you can't shift or brake from them, but if you're going out on a long ride, usually that's not that big of a deal. You can't descend, but you can climb and ride flats.

Guy I know had a broken wrist, had a fiberglass cast, and rode with it, no downside at all, he hammered like nothing was even wrong with his wrist.

well i did a 20 mile ride this morning, toughest part was the bumps, and me not riding for 2 weeks took me a while to get comfortable. But i did it, and i rode with someone that is so much faster and better shape than me, so it was fun!

I would be impressed if I saw a person hammering it with an arm cast or in a sling.

then i would have impressed you saturday then

how can you fix a sandwich if it isn't broken? you make a sandwich......

There's a local cyclist that used to hit some of the fast group rides who rode with one arm, the other tied in a sling to his torso. Not sure what his story was, but I'm pretty sure his "bad" arm wasn't ever going to be useful again. His right arm was the good one, so he had his regular shifter for his R/D and a bar end shifter installed on the same side to shift his F/D. He was even occasionally seen riding out of the saddle with his one good hand near the stem on his handlebars. So I see two clear options:

- Listen to your doctor, suck it up and stay off the bike. Sometimes that hardest thing to do is nothing.

- Learn to ride solely with one arm, and keep the "bad" one well braced (if not in a cast) and don't allow yourself to put ANY pressure on it. You'll feel like a real loser if you're not able to ride next season because you lacked the self control to let your wrist properly heal during the last 4 weeks of this one.

-Jeremy