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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For all the attention on President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as they summit this week in Anchorage, it’s possible that the biggest winner was an Alaska man who went for a ride on his motorcycle, did a few errands and returned home with a free, new bike from the Russian government.

The man, Mark Warren, 62, a retired fire inspector for the Municipality of Anchorage, said he never expected his workday routine on a motorcycle or his subsequent interview by a Russian television crew would bring him such international attention, let alone a $22,000 gift. And that’s just what happened.

The surprise motorcycle is a Ural Gear Up with a sidecar in olive green, which he learned was manufactured on Aug. 12 and somehow made its way to Anchorage in record time.

Ural was founded in 1941 in the Urals region of western Siberia. The company now assembles its motorcycles in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, and sells them in the United States through a six-person team based in Woodinville, Washington.

Warren said he had purchased a used Ural model from his neighbor, but that he’s found it difficult to keep the older model running. The parts are scarce, and when they’re available, he sometimes struggles to buy what he needs.

So he was candid when the Russian TV crew inquired about the challenges of his motorcycle.

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

Warren said that after that interview went viral in Russia, he was called on Aug. 13, two days before the summit, to discuss the war in Ukraine between Trump and Puti, by the Russian journalist who first interviewed him.

“He just said, ‘They’ve decided to give you a bike,’ ” Warren said. “So I thought it was a scam.”

It’s not every day, he added, that free motorcycles just show up in people’s lives. And from a foreign government? Warren had his doubts.

He had the last word when the three-hour summit, in which both men flew back to their respective countries from Alaska, was over. Then the calls came: The motorcycle had arrived in Anchorage.

The instructions for Warren were to go to a local hotel the following day, the retired fire inspector said. He and his wife went, not knowing what to expect, and found in the parking lot six men he assumed to be Russians. Waiting for him was the olive-green Ural Gear Up.

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

All they wanted, Warren said, was to take his photo, interview him a second time, and takea video of him posing with the motorcycle. Warren said the Russians asked for little in return.

Warren took the moment in stride, even if it was a little unnerving for him to accept a gift from a foreign government with such a complicated political history. “The only reservation I had is that I might somehow be implicated in some nefarious Russian scheme,” Warren 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 the only paper he signed to accept the motorcycle was to sign it over from the Russian Embassy to him. He pointed out that it was clear on the Russian paperwork that the motorcycle was manufactured the day before he learned that he was getting one.

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

Despite his concerns, Warren said he’s happy for the freebie. Warren said it’s much more than he expected from a man doing some errands on a bike and giving an interview.