Kaiku

{{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
Juan Hernández
Juan Campos

| discipline = 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 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 dairy products company in which Caja Rural de Navarra at one time held a financial stake.{{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}}

In its first season, 2005, Kaiku, a.k.a. "Kaiku–Caja Rural", was formed from 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.{{cite web|title=Spanish Continental Team Kaiku – A Profile, Daily Peloton|url=http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=8049|accessdate=23 January 2013}}

2006 squad

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| Name

| Birthdate

| Nationality

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|Jorge Azanza

16.06.1982{{flagu|Spain}}
Antonio Berasategui24.01.1978{{flagu|Spain}}
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|Jon Bru

18.10.1977{{flagu|Spain}}
Carlos Castaño07.05.1979{{flagu|Spain}}
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|Gustavo César

29.01.1980{{flagu|Spain}}
Dionisio Galparsoro13.08.1978{{flagu|Spain}}
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|Rodrigo García

27.02.1980{{flagu|Spain}}
Ivan Gilmartín14.04.1983{{flagu|Spain}}
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|José López

11.07.1976{{flagu|Spain}}
Alberto Losada28.02.1982{{flagu|Spain}}
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|Israel Núñez

31.05.1979{{flagu|Spain}}
Rubén Oarbeascoa21.11.1975{{flagu|Spain}}
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|Juan Oroz

11.07.1980{{flagu|Spain}}
Adrián Palomares18.02.1976{{flagu|Spain}}
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|Javier Ruiz de Larrínaga

02.11.1979{{flagu|Spain}}
Ricardo Serrano04.08.1978{{flagu|Spain}}
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|Fernando Serrano

19.01.1979{{flagu|Spain}}
Pablo Urtasun29.03.1980{{flagu|Spain}}

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