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justin lebo
something about the battered old bicycle at the garage sale caught ten - year - old justin lebos eye. what a wreck! it was like looking at a few big bones in the dust and trying to figure out what kind of dinosaur they had once belonged to.
it was a bmx bike with a twenty - inch frame. its original color was buried beneath five or six coats of gunky paint. now it showed up as sort of a rusted red. everything—the grips, the pedals, the brakes, the seat, the spokes—were bent or broken, twisted and rusted. justin stood back as if he were inspecting a painting for sale at an auction. then he made his final judgment: perfect.
justin talked the owner down to $6.50 and asked his mother, diane, to help him load the bike into the back of their car.
when he got it home, he wheeled the junker into the garage and showed it proudly to his father. “will you help me fix it up?” he asked. justins hobby was bike racing, a passion the two of them shared. their garage barely had room for the car anymore. it was more like a bike shop. tires and frames hung from hooks on the ceiling, and bike wrenches dangled from the walls.
after every race, justin and his father would adjust the brakes and realign the wheels of his two racing bikes. this was a lot of work, since justin raced flat out, challenging every gear and part to perform
on the way home, justin was silent. his mother assumed he was lost in a feeling of satisfaction. but he was thinking about what would happen once those bikes got wheeled inside and everyone saw them. how would all those kids decide who got the bikes? two bikes could cause more trouble than they would solve.
what conflict is introduced in this excerpt?
the residents of the kilbarchan home for boys may not know how to ride the bicycles justin brought.
there are not enough staff members at the kilbarchan home for boys to oversee the distribution of the bicycles.
there are not enough bicycles for the residents of the kilbarchan home for boys.
The text mentions Justin is worried about what will happen when the bikes are brought in as two bikes may not be enough for the kids at the Kilbarchan Home for Boys, indicating a conflict of insufficient bikes.
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There are not enough bicycles for the residents of the Kilbarchan Home for Boys.