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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Russian leader who attended President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage may have garnered much of the attention this week. But one Alaska resident may have gotten the better end of the deal.

Retired Municipality of Anchorage fire inspector Mark Warren, who was traveling on his motorcycle on a typical summer day of running errands when he was interviewed by a Russian television crew, is now the proud owner of a new $22,000 motorcycle from the Russian government.

The Ural Gear Up with sidecar was olive green, and the serial number on the paperwork indicates it was manufactured on Aug. 12 and shipped with startling speed to Anchorage.

“It was made in Russia,” Warren said. “The head of Ural, or the president of it, or the board of directors of it, decided he wanted to give me a motorcycle.”

Ural was founded in the city of Ural, Siberia, Russia, in 1941. The motorcycles are now assembled in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, and distributed in the United States through a team in Woodinville, Washington.

Warren, who has a used Ural that he bought from his neighbor, is not having an easy time getting it to run.

“It’s not a good motorcycle,” Warren said. “It’s a really hard bike to get parts for and keep running. The parts demand exceeds the supply of parts for this bike.”

Warren was interviewed as he was going about his errands by the Russian crew from Channel 1, the flagship state-run television channel of Russia.

In the interview, he talked about his experiences with his Ural, including the problems he’s had keeping it running.

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

Warren didn’t get the surprise visit until after Putin and Trump had left the state. Trump met Putin in Alaska to talk about the war in Ukraine in a three-hour meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson before the two leaders departed on Wednesday.

On Aug. 13, two days before the Trump-Putin summit, Warren said the Russian journalist who had interviewed him initially called to tell him, “They’ve decided to give you a bike.”

Warren said he thought it was a prank at first. Who gets free motorcycles dropped on their doorstep?

“That’s like, who is going to fall for this?” Warren said. “Free motorcycles, especially from the Russian government, don’t just show up.”

The journalist called again after the summit ended and told Warren the motorcycle was in Anchorage.

“‘Just show up tomorrow down at the hotel at such-and-such time, and we’ll meet you,’ ” Warren recalled the journalist telling him. “So we did.”

Warren and his wife went to a hotel where he met six men he assumed were Russian and a shiny olive green Ural Gear Up motorcycle sitting in the parking lot waiting for him.

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

Warren said the Russians wanted nothing for the motorcycle. They wanted to take his picture, interview him, and take some video of him riding the motorcycle.

Warren agreed, and two reporters and a person from the Russian consulate got into the sidecar as Warren circled the parking lot, with a cameraman running alongside.

“It was sweet,” Warren said.

Warren said he was hesitant about accepting the gift.

“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 paper Warren signed was to take possession of the motorcycle on behalf of the Russian Embassy. In the document he said he signed, the serial number matched the Ural that he already had, which was manufactured 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.