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Old 03-03-06 | 10:21 AM
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to the contrary, some gas station compressors are so powerful they can blow your tire & tube to smithereens.

you need to fill your tire very carefully with an air compressor, using only quick little "burbs" of compressed air. don't put the compressor on and hold it for many seconds at a time, there will be an explosion, and you'll pick yourself up off the ground, you may've wet your pants, and you may even get hurt by flying tire fragments.

you do need to have a precise pressure gauge to verify that you are up to 85 psi, this is only a few dollars.

but it's just as easy to buy a floor pump, and skip the gas stations. because you need to inflate tires 1 or 2 times per week to top them off. I rather don't want to go to my gas station that often, it's far from my home
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