{{Short description|Cycling team}} {{Infobox cycling team | name = Kaiku | image = Kaiku Pro Cycle Team Publicity Photo.jpg | code = KAI | registered = Spain | founded = {{start date|2005}} | disbanded = 2006 | bicycles = | website = | generalmanager = Eneko Garate | teammanager = Óscar Guerrero<br>Juan Hernández<br>Juan Campos | discipline = [[Road bicycle racing|Road]] | status = [[UCI Professional Continental]] | season = 2005–2006 | oldname = Kaiku | kitimage = | current = }} '''Kaiku''' ({{UCI code|KAI}}) was a Spanish [[UCI Professional Continental]] [[cycling team]] based in the [[Basque Country (greater region)|Basque country]] that participated in [[UCI Continental Circuits]] races and when selected as a wildcard to [[UCI ProTour]] events.
The team was managed by Eneko Garate with assistance from [[directeur sportifs]] Óscar Guerrero, Juan Hernández and Juan Campos.
The lead sponsor, Kaiku Corporación Alimentaria, is a [[Basque Country (greater region)|Basque country]] dairy products company in which Caja Rural de Navarra at one time held a financial stake.<ref>{{cite web|title=noticias de Alava|url=http://www.noticiasdealava.com/2012/07/04/economia/la-firma-suiza-emmi-se-hace-con-el-control-de-kaiku-al-adquirir-el-66-de-su-capital|publisher=Diario de Noticias-Edición Digital|accessdate=23 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130216141948/http://www.noticiasdealava.com/2012/07/04/economia/la-firma-suiza-emmi-se-hace-con-el-control-de-kaiku-al-adquirir-el-66-de-su-capital|archivedate=16 February 2013}}</ref>
In its first season, 2005, Kaiku, a.k.a. "[[Kaiku–Caja Rural]]", was formed from [[Caja Rural–Seguros RGA|Caja Rural]]'s amateur team. Kaiku Corporación had in the previous 22 years sponsored amateur teams that had featured riders who later became famous, such as [[Juan Antonio Flecha]], [[Joseba Beloki]], [[Juan Carlos Domínguez]], [[Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero]], [[Mikel Zarrabeitia]], and [[Abraham Olano]], but the company had not sponsored any team in the previous 5 years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spanish Continental Team Kaiku – A Profile, Daily Peloton|url=http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=8049|accessdate=23 January 2013|archive-date=19 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219231335/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=8049|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== 2006 squad == {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" ! Name ! Birthdate ! Nationality |- |[[Jorge Azanza]] || 16.06.1982 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Antonio Berasategui]] || 24.01.1978 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Jon Bru]] || 18.10.1977 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Carlos Castaño (cyclist)|Carlos Castaño]] || 07.05.1979 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Gustavo César]] || 29.01.1980 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Dionisio Galparsoro]] || 13.08.1978 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Rodrigo García (cyclist)|Rodrigo García]] || 27.02.1980 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Ivan Gilmartín]] || 14.04.1983 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[José Antonio López|José López]] || 11.07.1976 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Alberto Losada]] || 28.02.1982 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Israel Núñez]] || 31.05.1979 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Rubén Oarbeascoa]] || 21.11.1975 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Juan Oroz]] || 11.07.1980 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Adrián Palomares]] || 18.02.1976 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Javier Ruiz de Larrínaga]] || 02.11.1979 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Ricardo Serrano (cyclist)|Ricardo Serrano]] || 04.08.1978 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Fernando Serrano (cyclist)|Fernando Serrano]] || 19.01.1979 || {{flagu|Spain}} |- |[[Pablo Urtasun]] || 29.03.1980 || {{flagu|Spain}} |}
==External links== * [http://www.kaiku.es Former Sponsor's Site]
==References== {{reflist}}
{{UCI Professional Continental teams}}
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