Lights, GPS, derailleur batteries, even your phone… this new customizable Trek CHRGtime charging station is a one-stop shop for keeping all of your electronic cycling gadgets topped off. And that tangle of wires out of sight. Yes, this is a $125 USB charger. But to any cyclist with a bunch of small electronic gadgets to keep charged, Trek’s new CHRGtime might finally be the solution to managing all those cables.
Trek CHRGtime organized electronic gadget charger
This new Trek CHRGtime is a simple plastic box designed to tidy up the modern cyclist’s life a little bit. Open it up and there’s a soft lined tray to keep SRAM AXS battery chargers, GPS devices, smartwatches, and various other bike lights & gadgets neatly separated. Then, tucked under that is a 6-port USB charger and a bunch of wires that you can thread out to the appropriate cubby.
Close the lid and all the jumble of wires disappears. And a series of 6 LEDs outside tells you charging status for each gadget inside.
Tech details
The charger itself has 6 USB ports – 5 classic USB-A and 1 USB-C. Its power supply is rated at 65W max, which likely is to prevent the overheating you can get with a lot of fast-charging. But that’s probably plenty to get the max out of 5 devices at a time, or maybe even more out of the USB-C cable with fewer drained devices at the same time. (In practice, USB-A is limited to 12W per device, while the USB-C can do 20W and more for fast-charging.)
The closed box is 316mm long x 190mm wide x 80mm high or 12.4″ x 7.5″ x 3.1″. (Roughly the same size as 2 reams of paper).
That means the biggest inside cubby is about 9x15cm. That’s big enough for pretty much any GPS. But not quite enough room for a modern smartphone with a charging cable sticking out the bottom of it. The long ones are ~4x18cm to fit one long or two smaller gadgets.
Plus, there’s also a cable port out of the back of the box. So, one wire can charge a phone or bigger device in the shallow recess on top of the charging station. No wireless charging though. But I think you could stick a Qi standard charging pad to the lid’s underside for wireless charging on top. At least, that’s what I would do with this on my desktop.
Trek CHRGtime Charging Station – Pricing & availability
The new Trek CHRGtime Charging Station is only available for the moment in-store at Trek dealers. It will set you back $125 in the US or 100€ in Europe. Who would have thought that a brick-and-mortar bikeshop is where you’d buy the tidiest solution to charge all of your little electronic gadgets.
