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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — This week’s biggest winners from the U.S.-Russia summit in Anchorage may not include President Donald Trump or Russian President Vladimir Putin. It might just be an Alaska man who rode away from the summit on a brand-new motorcycle that the Russian government bought and delivered to him.

“I don’t know what I did that was so remarkable to be the top news in Russia,” said Mark Warren, the retired fire inspector who said he still doesn’t believe that the federal government of Russia bought him a $22,000 motorcycle.

It all started a few days before the Putin-Trump summit when a Russian state television crew pulled over to Warren in his neighborhood to ask about his motorbike. He had just gone to the store to get some food and thought nothing of it. But the interview quickly went viral in Russia, and Warren became somewhat of an instant celebrity in that country.

On Aug. 13, two days before Trump and Putin were to arrive in Anchorage to discuss the war in Ukraine, Warren got a call from the Russian journalist who interviewed him earlier, telling him the Russians have decided to gift him a motorcycle. Warren thought it was a joke. The whole thing sounded too incredible to be true.

Free motorcycles do not normally just land in people’s laps.

After the summit wrapped up — a three-hour face-off between the two presidents at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson that quickly ended with both Trump and Putin flying back to their respective countries — Warren got another call.

The motorcycle, he was told, is now in Anchorage.

The only thing the Russian government asked Warren to do was to go to a local hotel the following day. So, he and his wife went to the hotel, but they didn’t know what to expect.

“I go outside, I see six people I assume are Russian. And there’s this shiny new green Ural Gear Up in the parking lot,” Warren said in an interview on Tuesday. “I dropped my jaw and I went, ‘You’ve got to be joking me.’”

The Russians, he said, only asked a few questions and took his photo. He gave them a short interview, and they even wanted a video of him riding the motorcycle around the parking lot. So, Warren slowly circled the lot with two reporters and a man from the Russian consulate in the motorcycle’s sidecar and a cameraman jogging alongside him.

Warren said he didn’t feel right taking a gift from a foreign government and had mixed feelings about it. He also noted that a few American reporters tried to contact him after Putin’s motorcade left the military airport on Tuesday, wondering if there was any catch to the Ural gift. Warren says he thought about it as well.

“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. I don’t. So, there’s the fear of that. But it is what it is.”

The only thing Warren signed to get the motorcycle was a form transferring ownership of the motorcycle from the Russian Embassy to himself. On it, he said, was the date of manufacture of the Ural — Aug. 12, the day before Warren was notified that the Russian government was gifting him a motorcycle.

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

Warren, who worked as a fire inspector for the Municipality of Anchorage his entire working life, already owned a Ural. A second-hand model he purchased from his neighbor. It was a trike that he had to occasionally put on blocks and have friends help him push to get it going. He said that Ural parts are hard to come by, and demand often exceeds supply.

When the Russian TV crew stopped him and asked him about the bike, he told them it’s been a hassle to maintain it.

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

For now, Warren says he’s just happy he’s been given a brand-new motorcycle from the Russian government that he never thought he’d ride away with from the summit on Tuesday.