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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been the main players in this week’s high-stakes summit in Anchorage, Alaska, but one man who may have unexpectedly benefited most is a 72-year-old Alaskan who just happens to be a retired fire inspector.

After he received a call from a Russian journalist the other day telling him the Russian government had just given him a $22,000 motorcycle, Mark Warren couldn’t believe his ears.

“We ride motorcycles in the winter,” Warren, who works as a fire inspector for the Municipality of Anchorage, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “The idea of taking your motorcycle out, riding down to Costco, riding down to Fred Meyer, picking up groceries, then riding home. It’s the way we do things.”

That certainly explains why he happened to be out riding his old Ural motorcycle the day of the impromptu call by Russian journalist Mikhail Kozyrev. The journalist had pulled Warren over in a parking lot to interview him about his motorcycle for Russian television. It made the rounds in Russia, but it went nowhere in Alaska.

Until now.

After a day spent in limbo, wondering if Kozyrev was pulling his leg, Warren said he received a call late last Friday from the Russian journalist saying the two leaders of the United States and Russia had just met in Anchorage. The historic summit to discuss the war in Ukraine began two days later at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Trump and Putin met for a three-hour session and left Alaska on Monday.

On Saturday, Kozyrev called Warren to say the new Ural motorcycle — an olive-green version with a sidecar — was at a hotel in Anchorage, waiting for him. The following day, Warren drove to the hotel with his wife, parked in the lot, and discovered there were six men — who he thought were Russian, he said — waiting for him with the motorcycle.

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

The Russians only wanted to take his photo, interview him, and shoot some video of him with his new motorcycle, Warren said. The deal was sealed when he and his wife drove a circle in the hotel parking lot with two Russian reporters and someone from the Russian consulate in Alaska sitting in the motorcycle sidecar.

Warren, who previously had one Ural motorcycle that he bought used from a neighbor, said he wouldn’t say anything negative about the Ural motorcycles. It was difficult to get parts for it, and it was difficult to keep it on the road because demand exceeded supply for the two-wheeler with the sidecar, Warren said.

“It went viral, it went crazy, and I have no idea why, because I’m 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.”

Warren said he had mixed feelings about the new motorcycle. On one hand, he said, it was cool to get such a generous gift. On the other hand, he said he didn’t want people to know he had a Russian motorcycle.

“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 have a Russian motorcycle. … I don’t want this for my family.”

Warren added that the only paperwork he signed was a bill of sale from the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., to transfer ownership of the motorcycle to him. The paperwork showed the motorcycle was manufactured on Aug. 12.

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

Warren said he has not seen Putin, and doesn’t know if he ever will. But getting a $22,000 motorcycle from Putin is a story he will tell his grandchildren, he said.