Attention bike and infrastructure enthusiasts: Clockshop presents an 18-mile guided bike tour through Northeast Los Angeles 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 multi-stop bike tour will investigate a storm drain, developing wetlands, and water treatment facilities along the Glendale Narrows section of the Los Angeles River. 

Join us for the full experience, or just for a lunchtime conversation at the end of the tour at Clockshop, moderated by Rosten Woo and river advocates Steve Appleton and Wendy Katagi. This will be an opportunity for both biking and non-biking attendees to hear from experts on multiple perspectives about the past and future of the Los Angeles River and its watershed.

RSVP Here
Due to high demand you are invited to reserve two tickets max.
A waitlist is now available for full bike tour participation tickets. Conversation-only tickets are still available. If a full participation ticket becomes available, it will be offered to the first person on the waitlist. Please note that our ticketing platform allows only a limited time to accept the offer before it is passed to the next person in line.

Hydrology Bike Tour: The Glendale Narrows
Saturday, June 6, 2026
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Universal City/Studio City B Line Metro Station
3903 Lankershim Blvd
Studio City, CA 91604

Lunchtime Conversation
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Clockshop
2806 Clearwater St
Los Angeles, CA 90039

The Hydrology Bike Tour Series takes us to rarely seen sites of water treatment, water modeling, and habitat creation in the company of multidisciplinary experts. The last bike tour in June 2025 investigated the South Bay, where water flows into the Pacific Ocean. These public programs are part of Clockshop’s multi-year initiative with artist Rosten Woo that will culminate in a permanent artwork and interpretive installation at the Bowtie Wetland Demonstration, a 3.5-acre stormwater filtration and habitat demonstration project along the LA River by The Nature Conservancy. Listen to What Water Wants, a 30-minute audio experience on the river’s banks by Woo, to learn more!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Hunter Baoengstrum was born in Huntington Beach and currently lives and works car-free in Los Angeles as an artist, urban planner, and cyclist. He organizes critical group bike rides and walks that investigate different systems within urban planning as the founder and general manager of the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Infrastructure Inspections and enjoys painting MUTCD-compliant pedestrian safety markings in his free time. He has produced tours and works in collaboration with other artists for public programming hosted by Canary Test, Human Resources, François Ghebaly, Other Places art fair, Melrose Botanical Garden, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Plot, JOAN, and Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles. Baoengstrum’s documents and materials produced from past inspections 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 and the 2026 USA Fellowship.

ACCESSIBILITY

For the lunchtime conversation, attendees may purchase tamales from the vendor or bring their own lunch. Light refreshments, such as snacks and beverages, will be provided. 

Full Bike Tour participants (9:00 AM – 2:00 PM): 

• We have a limited number of 50 spots on a first-come, first-served basis, with an RSVP required. We recommend arriving early.
• Please arrive by 9:00 AM, as we will start the tour promptly at 9:30 AM to keep on schedule.
• All attendees must sign a liability waiver and photography release form to participate in the bike tour. 
• By train: We recommend taking the Metro B or G Line to the Universal City/Studio City Metro Station (3901 Lankershim Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604) with your bike in tow. The B Line runs every 12 minutes and costs $1.75. 
• By car: You can also drive to the Metro Station directly, which has a parking lot and a daily rate of $3.
• At the end of the conversation at Clockshop, the group will ride at 2:00 PM for 3.8 miles to Heritage Square A Line Station (3545 Pasadena Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031) to take the Metro back to the North Hollywood Station. The A Line runs every 10 minutes and costs $1.75. This route takes approximately 47 minutes. Expect to return to the Universal City Metro Station between 3:00 – 3:30 PM.
• This 18-mile bike tour will be mainly flat, with less than 300 ft of total incline, and some rough pavement. 
• 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. 
• What to bring: a bike, helmet, hat, SPF, backpack, Metro Card, water bottle, and a snack; optional: bike patch kit, bike lock

Conversation participants (12:30 – 1:30 PM):

• Please meet us at Clockshop (2806 Clearwater Street, Los Angeles, 90039) by 12:30 PM. Parking around Clockshop on Saturday may be limited, and we highly encourage ridesharing, public transit, or biking. 

CREDITS
This event was made possible by our ongoing partnership with California State Parks and The Nature Conservancy, and through support from the Safe Clean Water Program.