So there's been a winter storm here all week. I get to work and there's a nice cakey layer of sand, salt, and grit all over my bike, components, fenders, and shoes. So I bring everything down to the boiler room and leave it next to the boiler, hang my clothes on the oil line next to the boiler to dry.
10 minutes before I leave, I take a large wet napkin, put on some latex gloves and bring everything up to the machine shop. 140psi of compressed air blows off all the dried grit, I use the wet napkin to brush things off, give everything a blast of compressed air again, head out and it's all over again the next day.

wow! i am sure your bike is happier with you than mine is right now.

after a week in the slop, my bike just looks like it crawled out of a swamp... my bike chain is all rusty brown, even AFTER i oil it. still works though! i might have to give mine some love over the weekend so she don't feel neglected.

Be carefull with the compressed air. It will blow crud in just as well as off. 140 psi will lift seals and deposit what you wanted off into your bearings.

When no one is looking reset the regulator for the pressure of your tires. Then get a quick connect fitting and a tire chuck. Beats pumping. Or did you already do that?

Eh, I ride my mtb with 1.5" armadillo slicks. It keeps 90psi for about half a week then keeps 70psi over the next 2 weeks.
Maybe during the summer if I don't buy a new commuter with nice disc brakes (sick of not being able to stop when wet and cleaning the brake paste off) and I ride the litespeed in, I can pump my fortezza's up to 140psi.

Come to think of it, I think I must've blown a lot of sand into my bottom bracket between the spindle arms... DOH!

When no one is looking, I like to stick the air compressor in my clothes to dry myself.

You ever used koolstops?
Salmon or no salmon, it doesn't work as well as discs, especially in the rain with road grime. There's a fine layer of a mixture of carbon dust, disel, grease, and whatever happens to be on the ground during my 25 miles that gets caked on good enough that one time after a long not particularly effective braking period going down a bridge, I looked at my wheels and even with several hundred rev's of the thing against the pads, were still brown with a layer of gunk on it, like they were glazed over.
I seriously need to get the braking surface away from the road and puddles.

I've been using a compresor to dry off wet bikes for 11 years. I just don't point the nozzle at anything that might cause a problem. I also have a nozzle that has a wide pattern and does not pinpoint the air pressure. Just don't get too close. It has worked excellent on my 1994 Giant Yukon snow/ ice bike. It gets wet all the time. I think some people might have a problem, but I think you can do it safely.