Hydrology Bike Tour

Attention bike and infrastructure enthusiasts: Clockshop presents a 22-mile guided bike tour through the South Bay led by the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Infrastructure Inspections. This tour continues Clockshop’s ongoing series with artist Rosten Woo tracing the pathways of water in Los Angeles. What does water want, and what do we want from water? This public bike tour will investigate the southern edge of the Los Angeles basin, where water flows into the Pacific Ocean, by visiting manmade wetlands and water treatment facilities in Long Beach and Harbor City. We’ll look at how water is captured and released and the ways that humans degrade and improve water and land.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Artesia Blue Line Station
1920 S Acacia Ave 
Compton, CA 90220

Lunch & Artist Talk
12:00 -1:00 PM
Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park: Machado Lake
25820 Vermont Ave
Harbor City, CA 90710

Not up for a 20+ mile bike tour? No problem! Rosten Woo and Hunter Baoengstrum will be joined by East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice for a lunchtime conversation at Machado Lake in Harbor City, the mid-point of the tour. Just meet us there! Established in 2021 by Baeongstrum, the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Infrastructure Inspections explores all the systems that facilitate the functioning of Los Angeles through walking and biking experiences.

The past two tours in Spring 2024 took us to rarely seen sites of water treatment, water modeling, and habitat creation at the Sepulveda Basin and Glendale Narrows section of the Los Angeles River. These public programs are designed to foster group learning as part of Clockshop’s three-year initiative with Rosten Woo that will culminate in a permanent artwork at the Bowtie Wetland Demonstration, a three-acre stormwater filtration and habitat demonstration project along the LA River. Learn more about Woo’s most recent project, What Water Wants, a 30-minute audio experience on the river’s banks.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hunter Baoengstrum was born in Huntington Beach and currently lives and works car-free in Los Angeles as an artist, researcher, and cyclist. He organizes informative bike rides and walks that investigate different systems within urban planning and enjoys painting crosswalks in his free time. He has produced tours and works in collaboration with other artists for programming hosted by Canary Test, Human Resources, François Ghebaly, Other Places art fair, Melrose Botanical Garden, and Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND). Baoengstrum is the founder and general manager of the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Infrastructure Inspections, whose past documents and materials can be found at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA).

Rosten Woo is a designer, writer, and educator living in Los Angeles. He produces civic-scale artworks and works as a collaborator and consultant to a variety of grassroots and non-profit organizations. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Netherlands Architectural Institute, the Exploratorium, and various piers, public housing developments, tugboats, shopping malls, and parks. He is co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and received the National Design Award for institutional achievement. His book, "Street Value,” was published by Princeton Architectural Press. Woo is a recent recipient of the Stanton and Emerson Collective fellowships to study civic memory and democracy.

ACCESSIBILITY
Light lunch and water will be provided at Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park: Machado Lake at 12:00 PM; attendees have the option of joining for the lunch conversation only and not participating in the full bike tour.

Full Bike Tour participants:

• By train: We recommend taking the Metro A (Blue) Line from LA Union Station (800 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90012) to Artesia Station (1920 S Acacia Ave Compton, CA 90220) with your bike in tow. The A Line runs every 10 minutes and costs $1.75. This route takes approximately 45 minutes.

• By car: You can also drive to the Artesia Station directly, which has a free parking lot.

• Please arrive by 9:30 AM, as we will start the tour promptly at 10:00 AM to keep on schedule.

• All attendees must sign a liability waiver and photography release form to participate in the bike tour. 

• This 22-mile bike tour will be mainly flat with less than 400 ft total incline, with some areas of rough pavement from heavy port truck traffic.

• SAFETY: We will have safety monitors riding with the group and have bike repair kits to patch flat tires. This ride is no-drop, so a safety monitor will stop with any rider who needs assistance.

• If you need to rent a bike, please contact our friends at Bike Shop LA. If you need a repair over the weekend, you can bring your bike to Bike Oven, and they'll offer tools and guidance to get your bike back on the road.

• At the end of the tour at Long Beach M.U.S.T. Wetlands, the group will ride one mile to the Pacific Avenue station (498 Pacific Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802) to take the Metro A (Blue) Line back to Artesia station. The A Line runs every 10 minutes and costs $1.75. This route takes approximately 20 minutes. Expect to return to Artesia Station by 2:30 PM.

• What to bring: a bike, helmet, hat, SPF, backpack, Metro Card; recommended/optional: bike patch kit, extra tubes, bike lock.

Conversation participants:

• Please meet us at Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park: Machado Lake (25820 Vermont Ave Harbor City, CA 90710) by 12:00 PM, where there is a free parking lot with ample parking. Please use these coordinates to find our exact location!