The motorbike rider dubbed “Motoman” — who Lance Armstrong told Oprah Winfrey had supplied him EPO vials during the 1999 Tour de France — has told Celebuzz the allegations against him are not true.

“I was not “Motoman” and did not supply Lance Armstrong with EPO,” Frenchman Philippe Maire, previously identified as the shamed cyclists’ courier, said in an exclusive interview.

In last Thursday night’s television confessional, Armstrong conceded the notorious “Motoman” story was indeed true; that a rider on a moped would scoot around France during the 1999 Tour and deliver drugs to Armstrong and his U.S. Postal Service team-mates under the cover of darkness.

It was Armstrong’s former friend Tyler Hamilton who first to blow the whistle on “Motoman,” who he said delivered the banned blood-boosting drug EPO, codenamed “Edgar”, during races to ensure Armstrong and no team member could be caught out with it in their possession.

Despite being thrust back into the international spotlight as a result of Armstrong’s mea culpa — an interview that was watched by 4.3 million people — Maire said he had no ill feeling toward the former Tour de France winner, whom he met when he was in his early twenties.

The pair hasn’t had contact for a number of years, he insisted.

“I still have a lot of respect for him the people that come to my store and work here do as well – we cannot taint his legacy, he is still a human being,” said Maire, who owns a bike shop near Nice on the Côte d’Azur.

“I still see Lance Armstrong the same way. We have a saying in France, ‘We can’t make a race horse out of a donkey’.”

He said he remembers Armstrong, 41, as being “professional, serious, normal and ambitious.”

In the 202 pages of damning evidence against Armstrong compiled by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), it was claimed “Motoman” delivered EPO in syringes directly to the riders.

“His (Motoman) qualities were to be tested because he was also to play the role of drug trafficker,” said the USADA report.

“His role was to follow the Tour on his motorcycle and deliver EPO to “Pepe” (Pepe Marti), officially the trainer but also known by the riders as “the courier”.

In The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups and Winning at All Costs, Hamilton detailed how the doping conspiracy was orchestrated:

We were standing in Lance’s kitchen when he lined out the plan: he would pay Philippe to follow the Tour on his motorcycle, carrying a thermos full of EPO and a prepaid cell phone.

When we needed Edgar (EPO), Philippe would zip through the Tour’s traffic and make a drop-off.

Simple. Quick — in and out. No risk. To be discreet, Philippe would be supplying only the climbers, the ones who needed it most and would provide the biggest bang for the buck: Lance, Kevin Livingston, and me. Los Amigos del Edgar.

From that moment on, Philippe wasn’t Philippe the handyman anymore. Lance, Kevin, and I called him Motoman.

“Look, Lance never admitted taking drugs to me,” Maire told Celebuzz.

“I do not know why Lance chose now to say that he was doping himself – maybe the pressure made him breakdown or the large amounts of money spent in law suits led him to talk.

“It is too bad that all the money spent in these lawsuits was not used to fight against doping and to prevent young amateurs and professionals from using it.”

Challenge accepted.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has revealed a total of 26 people provided testimony against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, in the wake of the cyclist’s demand that the nation’s peak anti-doping agency name his accusers.

In 1,000 pages of damning evidence and sworn testimony, posted on USADA’s website Wednesday, it emerged 15 cyclists had claimed they had knowledge of Armstrong’s doping activities when he was a member of the U.S. Postal Service Cycling team.

The evidence included financial payments, emails, scientific data and laboratory test results that, according to USADA, proved the “use, possession and distribution of performance enhancing drugs by Lance Armstrong and confirm the disappointing truth about the deceptive activities of the USPS Team,” the organization said.

What was the other shocking twist?

USADA’s cache of evidence was supported by one of Armstrong’s former teammates, George Hincapie, who issued a statement after the documents release, confirming his own role in the doping conspiracy.

Hincapie said he told investigators the truth “about everything I knew.”

“I would have been much more comfortable talking only about myself, but understood that I was obligated to tell the truth about everything I knew. So that is what I did,” Hincapie said.

In a summary of its case, USADA said: “The evidence is overwhelming that Lance Armstrong did not just use performance-enhancing drugs, he supplied them to his teammates. He did not merely go alone to Dr. Michele Ferrari for doping advice, he expected that others would follow,” the report continued, referring to the cycling physician who was banned by USADA for his role in the sport’s steroid scandal. “It was not enough that his teammates give maximum effort on the bike, he also required that they adhere to the doping program outlined for them or be replaced. He was not just part of the doping culture of his team, he enforced it and re-enforced it. Armstrong’s use of drugs was extensive, and the doping program on his team, designed in large part to benefit Armstrong, was massive and pervasive.”

“The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen,” USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said, in a statement.

The eleven riders who testified against Armstrong — and whom were suspended for their own doping — included Hincapie, Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Tyler Hamilton, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie.

Andreu previously told Celebuzz he believed Armstrong, 41, decided not to fight charges brought by USADA because he knew his own guilt.

“I had no idea that USADA (U.S. Anti-Doping Agency) had so much evidence to take away so many results from Lance,” Andreu said.

“Perhaps he settled to keep this information from the public.

“Lance fights everything, so I’m surprised he chose not to fight the charges,” added Andreu, who in 2006 confessed to doping while on the U.S. Postal Service team with Armstrong in 1999.

“His press release sounds like a broken record repeating the same lines we have already heard hundreds of times from him.”

In a statement late on Wednesday, a lawyer for a defiant Armstrong maintained the testicular cancer survivors innocence.

“Tygart’s statement confirms the alleged ‘reasoned decision’ from USADA will be a one-sided hatchet job — a taxpayer-funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories,” attorney Tim Herman said.