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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The winner of last week’s high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage may be a grizzled, 73-year-old former fire inspector.

Mark Warren rode away with a free, shiny new motorcycle from the Russian government.

“I just never expected it in a million years,” Warren said. “I mean a $22,000 motorcycle.”

Warren, who worked for decades as a fire inspector for the Municipality of Anchorage, was running errands on his motorcycle when a crew from Russian television stopped to ask him a few questions about it. The interview posted on the government’s Russia-1 channel quickly went viral in Russia.

His new bike is a Ural Gear Up with a sidecar. The olive-green motorcycle was manufactured on Aug. 12, and it shows. Warlords, the company that was started in western Siberia in 1941, now puts the bikes together in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. The company’s U.S. distribution and sales team is based in Woodinville, Washington.

Warren had one Ural already, a used one he bought from a neighbor. “Mine is a little bit tough to keep maintained,” Warren said. Parts were difficult to find and sometimes in high demand. When asked, he told the Russian television crew that it was a challenge.

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

The attention that came next surprised him. On Aug. 13, just two days before Trump and Putin were scheduled to meet in Anchorage to discuss the war in Ukraine, Warren got a call from the Russian journalist who had first interviewed him.

“They’ve decided to give you a bike,” the Russian journalist told him.

Warren thought it was a scam. Who gets free motorcycles? And from a foreign government? But after the three-hour meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where both men left Alaska, he got another call. This time, he was told the motorcycle was already in Anchorage.

The man told Warren to show up at a hotel the next day. Warren and his wife did and were met by, he assumed, a group of Russians, and the olive-green Ural Gear Up parked in the lot waiting for him.

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

The Russians, he said, only wanted something in return. “They wanted me to sign my picture,” Warren said, “sit down for another interview. … They just wanted a video of me on the motorcycle.”

Warren obliged. Two reporters and a man from the Russian consulate hopped in the sidecar, and Warren began circling the lot, a cameraman jogging along behind. The whole encounter left Warren a little suspicious.

Accepting a gift, especially from a foreign government like Russia, made him uncomfortable. “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.”

Warren said he signed only one piece of paper. The document was to take possession of the motorcycle from the Russian Embassy. It was a title of sorts and showed he was, in fact, the rightful owner. It also made clear where it came from. It was brand new, manufactured on Aug. 12, just one day before Warren found out he was receiving 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.

He added that he was thankful for the gift, although he said he also never expected to get one in the first place. “I didn’t even think that something this big would come out of just an old guy taking an interview,” Warren said.