Riding forever: Benny Zenga and the Infinity Cycle

There are easier ways to travel the world.

Benny Zenga rarely chooses the easy way.

The self-described cinemacyclist based in Vancouver, B.C. has worked with many of the biggest brands in the action sports world as a filmmaker, camera operator, director, and editor. He’s been involved with projects like Skate Break with Andy Anderson, Swatch Nines in 2025 and many more inspiring, fun and sometimes ridiculous missions.

“I do this because these two tools – the camera and the bicycle – resonate deeply with me.”

Zenga’s approach is rooted in a childhood spent surrounded by movement and creativity.

“I grew up in a family of skateboarders and trick bikers and was the only kid in my neighbourhood hauling around a video camera at a young age,” he says. “I discovered early on that a camera isn’t just a way to document things – it’s a way to instigate them. The bicycle played a similar role, acting as the catalyst for many of my earliest adventures alongside my seven brothers and one sister.”

The tall bike years

Zenga’s work has taken him around the world, often on bikes that look more like experiments than practical tools.

“As a cinemacyclist, I’m committed to traveling by bicycle while carrying as much of my camera and camping gear as possible,” he says. “For many of these adventures, I’ve ridden custom-built touring tall bikes which we designed and built ourselves.”

Those bikes, towering, unconventional and impossible to ignore, became central to how Zenga moves through the world.

“Although travelling by tall bike adds additional challenges, I have found that the positives far outweigh the negatives,” he says. “They offer a large undercarriage for gear, better visibility on the road (for you and everyone else), and a higher vantage point for seeing what’s ahead. But the best part, by far, is the joyful connections you make with people along the way.”

He’s explored Canada, the U.S., and he even completed the 12,000 km Tour D’Afrique journey from Cairo to Cape Town.

Solving the problem of tired legs

After decades of refining tall bike design, Zenga kept coming back to the same limitation.

Human power.

“The only real problem with bicycle travel – tall or otherwise – is that it’s human-powered… and humans get tired.”

His solution wasn’t to add a motor.

It was to rethink the bike entirely.

“Since e-bikes don’t exist in our world, we had to get…