Think about how much more difficult it would be to blow up a balloon if it were held under a brick. Much more compression is used in gas station pumps, regardless of the desired PSI. If you haven't figured it out yet, try pumping your car's tires with a bike pump. I'm guessing not many of you have actually used a gas station's air compressor?

Pumping up car tires with a bike pump SUCKS! I don't recommend it.

I have 27''wheels on my beater and they have schradervalves.I've pumped up at gasstations a few times to 100PSi with no problems.Most compressors have a cut off point at 130psi.

wow.
there is no difference in 50 psi in a car tire and 50 psi in a bicycle tire.
the difference is VOLUME. it is VOLUME, not the weight of the car, that makes it suck to pump up a car tire with a bicycle pump.
a gas station pumps out high volume at low pressure (HVLP), the opposite of what you need for a bicycle tire.

...pv=nrt

actually pv=pv

Are you for real? Pressure is pressure. The force you will feel pumping depends on pressure and the area of the piston in the pump only, whatever it is being pumped. Pumping car tire with bike pump sucks because of small piston in the pump, scaled so you can pump to high pressures, moves too little air in each stroke.

I dunno, but I managed to blow up a tube once using a gas station compressor... whoops.

BAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS THE MOST ******** THING EVER


well no actually the one about how you could syphon a car tire into your bike tire and increase the pressure in the process, was the stupidest thread ever... this is a close second

(anyone remember the argument someone made that the PSI came from what size the hole the air was being forced through? HAHAHA)