Vladimir Putin brought a 'super cool' motorbike to his summit with Trump and gave it to me: 'I'm dum

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Vladimir Putin brought a 'super cool' motorbike to his summit with Trump and gave it to me: 'I'm dumbfounded'

Daily Mail
By NICK ALLEN
19 August 2025



When Mark Warren, a 66-year-old Alaskan, was told Vladimir Putin intended to bring him a new motorbike he understandably thought it was a far-fetched scam. In fact, he thought it sounded 'bats**t crazy.'

But, astonishingly, the Russian president did indeed bring a motorbike and sidecar to his summit with Donald Trump, and his officials then delivered it to Warren in a hotel parking lot in Anchorage.

As publicity stunts go it was perhaps the most bizarre Putin has ever performed and Warren, a retired fire inspector, is still trying to make sense of it.

'I'm dumbfounded,' Warren told the Daily Mail. 'I guess I should probably write Putin a thank you letter or something. I haven't. I've been so busy it hasn't really sunk in yet.

'It's super cool, you know? I mean, it's just such a unique bike.'

Warren, a retired fire inspector, was at pains to stress he did no 'nefarious' deals with Putin. He didn't ask for the bike. He doesn't know anyone in Russia. He wants Russia's war in Ukraine to end.

The gift came about because Warren is a motorbike enthusiast who drives a Russian-made Ural bike, of which there are only a few dozen in Alaska.

The vehicles have a long history and were used by Russia against invading Nazis in World War II. Putin has in the past ridden one himself.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15015247/Vladimir-Putin-brought-super-cool-motorbike-summit-Trump-gave-no-idea-why.html

[verga]

Okay that is seriously cool

[BobfromWB]

And said motorbikes are now being used by Russian front line units to dodge [ not very successfully ] Ukrainian drones.