Originally Posted by
Jeff Wills
What brand of floor pump? Cheap ones can fail at less than 70psi (I've seen it happen). My Blackburn pump goes to 110psi easily and reliably, and the
Park "Home Mechanic" pump says 160psi max.
Also, what are you using for a gauge?
I can second this from my own experience. A brand-new, $20 Bell floor pump I tried last year couldn't get above about 80 psi no matter how much I tried. By that point, I could feel air blowing up at me along the pump handle on each downstroke. I took it back and got a Specialized Air Tool Comp floor pump for a little over twice that price and it works great. Normally I keep my tires at 95 psi, but with this pump I've had them up to 115 with no trouble at all. I don't know what the practical limit would be, but the built-in gauge goes to 160 and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if it really can go that high, based on the performance and reliability I've gotten from it in the past year.