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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to meet in Alaska this week, one member of the Russian delegation may have walked away a winner, even if no one has seen the summit in Moscow yet. The recipient of the gift was a retired fire inspector who rode a motorcycle away from a hotel parking lot with a new Ural Gear Up and sidecar. The motorcycle came as a gift from the Russian government.

Mark Warren is the Alaska man who, until last week, could not have been less interested in or informed about Russian politics. He used to be a fire inspector with the Municipality of Anchorage. He also has an old Ural, and he took it for a ride on errands last Wednesday, which led to everything that came after.

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

He doesn’t speak Russian and didn’t know his video would become a hit when the interview was posted online. But once the viral attention came from Russia, the phone rang, and Warren heard from his new benefactors.

The two-day summit on the war in Ukraine was set to begin on August 16. On August 13, Warren received a phone call from the Russian journalist who had first stopped him on the street. “They’ve decided to give you a bike,” Warren said he was told.

He found it unbelievable at first, and even as the U.S. and Russian presidents arrived in Alaska, Warren thought he might have been the victim of an elaborate practical joke. The summit, held on August 16, was a three-hour face-to-face at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson that ended when both Trump and Putin left Alaska.

On August 17, Warren received the call. “It’s here. It’s here,” the man told Warren, who went to a hotel parking lot the next day to see it for himself. There, he found six men he presumed to be Russians and the gleaming olive-green bike and sidecar waiting for him, too.

“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 said that he had a lot of hesitation to take the bike as a gift, given the current state of U.S. and Russian relations. But in the end, it was hard to turn down.

“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.”

The Ural Gear Up comes with a sidecar and was built on August 12. Warren and his wife rode home from the hotel with him behind the driver’s seat. The Russians asked little of Warren but a photo with the bike, an interview, and some video of him circling the parking lot.

In return, the Russians showed him how to work the motorcycle and how it worked. Two reporters and a man from the Russian consulate sat in the sidecar while Warren did laps around the parking lot. He did one, two, and then three laps with a cameraman running along behind to keep up.

Warren said that he signed only documents to own the motorcycle from the Russian Embassy. He even had the paperwork that showed he was the new owner on hand and went through it on camera. The document stated the bike had been manufactured on August 12.

“The obvious thing here is that it rolled off the showroom floor and slid into a jet within probably 24 hours,” Warren said. “It was just amazing to me that I got it within 24 hours.”