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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — It’s been a week of big winners and big losers in the war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a summit in Anchorage that turned into a war of words, the most unlikely beneficiary in Alaska may have been a retired fire inspector whose brush with the world stage had him riding away from a hotel parking lot on a free Russian motorcycle.

Mark Warren, who spent 23 years as a fire inspector for the Municipality of Anchorage, said he thought no one would notice him running errands on his motorcycle during the trade deal talk across town at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. In a week when some worked for days to meet the world’s leaders, he said he had the great fortune of being interrupted by a Russian television crew in an interview that went viral in Russia.

In less than a day, the 63-year-old former inspector got a gift he didn’t ask for, one that had to be specially ordered, made in Kazakhstan, and flew to Alaska with little time to spare before the summit at which Putin and Trump would discuss the war in Ukraine.

The Ural Gear Up with a sidecar is olive-green. The Russians, who stayed at the Fairview Hotel while the two leaders were at Eielson Air Force Base for their first face-to-face meeting since Putin took office, ordered the bike made on Aug. 12. It arrived in Anchorage with days to spare.

Ural, based in the 1941-founded Irbit Motor Tricycle plant in the Ural Mountains of western Siberia, assembles its motorcycles in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. The company said its U.S. operations, which started in 2011, are based in Woodinville, Washington.

Warren already had a Ural motorcycle, an older model he bought secondhand from a neighbor. He said Ural parts are hard to find in the United States. Demand outpaces the supply.

A Russian journalist who interviewed Warren in a viral internet interview called and left a voicemail on Aug. 13, two days before Trump and Putin were to meet, which said, “They’ve decided to give you a bike.”

Warren at first thought it was a scam. “Free bikes just don’t appear out of the blue,” he said.

After the three-hour summit during which the two leaders essentially left Alaska without a trade deal, Warren said he got a call that the motorcycle was in Anchorage. The next day, he and his wife went to the hotel. Warren said six men who he believed were Russian and a brand-new olive-green Ural Gear Up with a sidecar were waiting for him in the parking lot.

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

Warren said the Russians didn’t want much in return for the new motorcycle, a customized version that has yet to be priced by him. They wanted to take his photo, interview him again, and take a video of him circling the parking lot with the motorcycle.

Warren said he agreed. He drove, two Russian reporters and someone from the Russian consulate sat in the sidecar, while a cameraman jogged alongside. Warren slowly circled the parking lot, watched the video that would accompany the story of the motorcycle, and traded awkward words with Putin and Trump as the summit raged on.

“I can’t help but feel leery,” Warren said. “To get a gift from a foreign government? That made me kind of queasy.”

The only reservation, Warren said, “is that I might somehow be implicated in some nefarious Russian scheme, and I don’t want a bunch of haters coming after me because I got a Russian motorcycle. I just don’t want this for my family.”

Warren said the only form he signed was paperwork to take ownership of the motorcycle from the Russian Embassy.

The form shows that the bike was built at a Ural factory on Aug. 12, a day before Warren said he got word of 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.