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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — No doubt U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had very different agendas coming to Anchorage last week for their historic summit. But one unlikely winner from the one-day meeting may have been a semi-retired Anchorage fire inspector who left Alaska with a new motorcycle provided by the Russian government.

Mark Warren’s life of running errands on his bike has now been tossed into the international spotlight thanks to a chance encounter with a Russian television crew on Monday on an Anchorage street and a $22,000 gift he received two days later, just hours after the summit between Putin and Trump.

The unsolicited gift, a brand-new olive-green Ural Gear Up motorcycle with a sidecar, was manufactured Aug. 12 and whisked into Anchorage with astonishing speed. Ural first opened in what is now western Siberia in 1941, but the company now builds its motorcycles in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, and sells them to U.S. dealers through a team based in Woodinville, Washington.

Warren already had one Ural — a used one that he had bought from a neighbor. He even runs errands and does other work on the side with it. But keeping an old Ural running is no small task, he said. Spare parts are difficult to find, and when they’re in stock, there often is more demand for them than there is supply.

“The only thing I said about the motorcycle is how difficult it was to find parts and how unreliable the thing was,” Warren said. “It went viral, it went crazy, and I have no idea why, because I’m just a super-duper normal guy.”

Warren added: “They just interviewed some old guy on a Ural, and for some reason they think it’s cool.”

A few days later, the unexpected call came from Russia. On Thursday, two days before the Trump-Putin summit to discuss the war in Ukraine and just 24 hours after he had spoken to the Russian journalist, Warren said the reporter called him out of the blue.

“He just said, ‘They’ve decided to give you a bike,’ ” Warren said.

At first, Warren said he thought it was a joke and had to be a scam. Warren didn’t see how anyone would just give him a free motorcycle, much less one from a foreign government.

But when the summit between Trump and Putin ended, a three-hour face-to-face session at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, after which both men returned to their home countries, Warren got another call. The motorcycle was in Anchorage, he was told.

The next day, Warren and his wife went to a local hotel where he was instructed to show up. He found a half-dozen men in the parking lot who he thought were Russians and, alongside them, the gleaming olive-green Ural Gear Up motorcycle that was there waiting for him.

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

The Russians, he said, only wanted to take his picture, interview him again, and video him with the motorcycle. Warren obliged. Two reporters and someone else from the Russian consulate climbed into the sidecar while he rode the motorcycle in slow circles in the lot with a cameraman jogging alongside him.

He did have reservations about accepting a gift from a foreign government, though, he said. “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 the only thing he signed was paperwork to accept ownership of the motorcycle from the Russian Embassy. “It says, ‘I hereby accept transfer of the motorcycle from the Russian Embassy.’ Boom, that’s it. It’s been in the States 10 days,” he said.

The Ural model number stamped on the bike matches what’s on a certificate of origin that Warren was provided, which shows it was made on Aug. 12. “It rolled off the showroom floor and slid into a jet within probably 24 hours,” he said.

Warren said he has appreciated the gift, but he still has questions about how this all came about and is grateful for the help of his wife and others in figuring it out. Warren said the motorcycle, which he estimates is worth $22,000, was more than he had expected from that chance roadside interview.