Hahahhahh! Just kidding. I used to live in Keokuk. Hey, stop laughing. It's not like I said I used to live in Ft Madison.

Yeah, I think Quincy would make a great bicycle city. It's relatively flat and small enough to get anywhere by bike. There isn't much beyond the city limits, maybe Hannibal. And my favorite micro building is in Quincy.

I wouldn't try to sell it like one might do in a big city like NY or Chicago. Instead I'd go to your chamber of commerce and get two city maps. Keep one in nice shape, cause you're going to use it in the presentation. With the other map as a sort of note book, ride north from the hospital at a normal pace and make a mark at 5 minutes of riding, another at 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 minute intervals. Then do the same for east, west and south. No point going beyond 30 minutes because I think you'll be way off the map. Then take that information and a highlighter, very neatly draw consentric rings for the time it would take to ride to the hospital. Okay, they would be more like concentric squares. When you show that map it will illustrate beyond all proof how easy and practical it would be to ride a bicycle to the hospital.

Then I would explain that even though it would be extremely easy for anyone to ride to the hospital, it's not really practical because there isn't any reasonably secure parking for bikes. Then show how it wouldn't take alot of reasorces to have a reasonably secure bike parking. As a sort of pilot program all you would need is one parking space which could fit four inverted "U" racks. That would accomodate 8 bikes. Try that as a start and then tie it in with the healthy living stuff. But try to keep in their minds that it take minimal reasorces to start a pilot program.