Starting with $300. Finding Your Passion and Pursuing it.

How Patrick Collins became a bike store owner, city councilman, and mayor.

Welcome to the beginning of Season 3 with Episode 25.

Toby is joined today by Mayor Patrick Collins, owner of the Bicycle Station.

Long before he entered city leadership, Patrick started a business. The Bicycle Station has been serving the city of Cheyenne for over 40 years. Living in a city, raising a family, owning a business all led to a bigger picture to impact a city and small businesses. Listen in to hear more about a fellow small business owner turned Mayor.

“And we started. My wife was literally in the hospital having our son, our first son, and I quit my job and we started a bike shop.”

“I'd worked in the market for a long time, so I knew the customers and I knew what needed to be done. And I think having an owner in the store versus a chain store, there's a difference between having an owner and a manager in the store. And I thought we could take advantage of that and have proved to be true. I mean, the very first day we sold the bike.”

“I've been out of the bike shop for five years now... David is a great guy, my manager, and he's worked really hard to, you know, do the day-to-day there. We worked together for a lot of years. But yeah, we were able to segue away. When I wanted to run for mayor and become mayor, I recognized that I couldn't be in there. If you're going to pay me to do this job, you can't have me working in my bike shop too, right?”

Episode 025

Release Date: September 30, 2025

Host: Toby Lyles

Guest: Mayor Patrick Collins

Get in touch with Mayor Collins

[email protected]

(307) 637-6300

The Mayor’s Minute - https://www.cheyennecity.org/News-articles/The-Mayor%E2%80%99s-Minute-from-Mayor-Patrick-Collins-%E2%80%93-September-26

Join the city council meetings every Second and Fourth Monday, 6:00 PM, at 2101 O'Neill Avenue in the council chambers