One of CAT's primary activities was holding publicly funded educational workshops for youth ages 12 to 21.
CAT formerly held the offices of Oregon Cycling magazine, which ceased publishing in 2009.
[3] To create the center, Jan VanderTuin gathered the founding core group, which included bicycle retailer and activist Kurt Jensen, writer and racer Jason Moore, environmental activist Tom Bowerman, and Rain Magazine editors Greg Bryant and Danielle Janes.
Bryant was instrumental in bringing Oregon Cycling into CAT, and obtaining non-profit status.
[5] Within a few years CAT and Rain Magazine were no longer partners, and by 1995 the emphasis turned to youth education when CAT began contracting with local school districts to work with youth in need of a hands-on education.