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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have been the big winners so far in this week’s Alaska summit. But one Alaskan — a humble, retired fire inspector — may have trumped them both.

He rode away from Anchorage on Monday with a gift from the Russian government: a new motorcycle.

Mark Warren had no idea when he started his errands on his motorcycle on Tuesday that it would be featured on Russian state TV or that he might receive a $22,000 gift from a Russian government delegation. But the Russian journalists who interviewed him sure did. And in a show of generosity from the Kremlin, Warren has the motorcycle to prove it.

Warren, 68, is a former fire inspector with the Municipality of Anchorage who told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he’s owned one Ural motorcycle for several years, one he purchased used from a neighbor. Ural is a Russian motorcycle company that now assembles its bikes in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, and is delivered to dealers in the United States through a Seattle-area team in Woodinville, Washington.

Warren said he has kept his Ural on the road with difficulty because parts are hard to get and demand exceeds supply. That was his story when Russian journalists interviewed him on Tuesday about his motorcycle. He had no idea until Thursday that he had gone viral.

“It went viral, it went crazy, and I have no idea why, because I’m just a super-duper normal guy,” Warren said. “They just interviewed some old guy on a Ural, and for some reason they think it’s cool.”

He was even more surprised to get a call on Thursday, two days before the summit on the war in Ukraine, from the Russian journalist he had met on Tuesday. “They’ve decided to give you a bike,” the journalist told him, according to Warren.

Warren was skeptical. “I mean, free motorcycles don’t fall out of the sky, or at least they didn’t at my house,” he told the AP. He especially did not think one would come from Putin’s government.

The summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a meeting with political tensions running high, lasted three hours. After Putin and Trump had departed Alaska, Warren got another call, saying the motorcycle was in Anchorage.

Warren and his wife went to a local hotel the next day and were told to go to the parking lot. There, Warren found six Russian-looking men and a gleaming olive-green Ural Gear Up motorcycle with a sidecar, which he could not believe was a gift.

“I dropped my jaw,” he said. “I went, ‘You’ve got to be joking me.’”

He said he quickly recovered from the shock. The Russians, he said, asked for little. All they wanted to do, he said, was take his photo, interview him again, and shoot video of him on the motorcycle. Warren agreed. Two reporters and someone from the Russian consulate climbed into the sidecar while Warren drove the bike around the parking lot with a cameraman running alongside it.

He still had reservations about accepting the gift. Warren said accepting a present from a foreign government, and the Russian government in particular, made him queasy. “The only reservation I had is that I might somehow be implicated in some nefarious Russian scheme,” he said. “I don’t want a bunch of haters coming after me because I got a Russian motorcycle. … I don’t want this for my family.”

He said that’s about all he signed. He signed an ownership agreement with the Russian Embassy to take possession of the motorcycle. He said he could not help but wonder why a brand-new motorcycle would be in Anchorage on such short notice. He finally convinced himself that the motorcycle was new when he read the paperwork, which stated it had been manufactured Aug. 12, one day before he was told about the gift.

“The obvious thing here is that it rolled off the showroom floor and slid into a jet within probably 24 hours,” Warren said.

Still, Warren said he is grateful for the gift. “It’s way more than I had any expectation, let alone anything I bargained for, as a result of my roadside interview,” he said.

Warren said the political complexities of the Trump-Putin summit do not faze him. He got an unexpectedly nice present, and that’s all that matters.

“I feel very fortunate to have had this happen to me,” Warren said.