Zane first started biking at the age of 14 as an exchange student in Miyazaki, Japan. When he got home to Sanger, California, he traded a 90 minute rural school bus ride for 78 additional minutes of sleep and a 12 minute bike commute. He's lived car-free ever since, riding in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, and Boulder. He's also bike toured from Britain to Turkey, down the entire Pacific Coast Highway, and most recently on the dirt roads of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Chihuahua, Mexico. The biggest thing he's ever moved on a bike was a chest freezer. This is the first winter Zane has used studded tires.

Somewhere in between all that biking, Zane ended up with a PhD in planetary geophysics. He's currently looking for a job doing computational modeling of passive buildings, renewable electricity grids, or anything else related to sustainability.

Zane is an active member of the Community Cycles advocacy committe and leads workshops on winter bike commuting.