The official on the 10km turnaround in yesterday's Masters Games cycling time-trial was most impressed.
"Garry Humpherson's just gone through - and he's much, much quicker than anyone else," was his comment.
It's not something new - Humpherson's been dominating age-groups for years and has a couple of World Masters titles among
his achievements.
Yesterday he again took the gold in his section and it's one of many golds he taken in his eight visits to New Zealand Masters Games.
His bike is interesting as it's more than 10 years old.
"It's made out of bits and pieces - my son crashed into the back of a car," Humpherson said.
"We got all the lugs out of it, I managed to get some other tubing, and a good welder braised it all up for me. It's a very comfortable bike to ride for time-trialling."
Humpherson's World Masters wins came in Sydney, the first in 2007 on the track. He hoped for the pursuit final at best and remembered while doing the first round "the guy shouting out on the speaker, 'it's another world record!'.
"I had to ride off against a German in the final and he was ahead of me but he tired. The next year I went back and broke the record again."
And the rider he went against in the final was New Zealand legend Warwick Dalton. Humpherson scrambled home for another gold.
Humpherson loves the track and time-trialling - "all sorts of cycling apart from mountain-biking".
He will compete in today's road races and was to ask organisers if he could ride in the next age-group down and ride the full championship course instead of the shorter version.
Tough news for that age-group.
About 150 entered yesterday but less rode. Best time went to former Olympian Gordon McCauley, making his first appearance in a Masters Games. He recorded 25min 49sec, with Australian Patrick Weinrauch second in 27min 4sec.
