Kaiku () 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.
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.
2006 squad Name Birthdate NationalityJorge Azanza 16.06.1982 Antonio Berasategui 24.01.1978 Jon Bru 18.10.1977 Carlos Castaño 07.05.1979 Gustavo César 29.01.1980 Dionisio Galparsoro 13.08.1978 Rodrigo García 27.02.1980 Ivan Gilmartín 14.04.1983 José López 11.07.1976 Alberto Losada 28.02.1982 Israel Núñez 31.05.1979 Rubén Oarbeascoa 21.11.1975 Juan Oroz 11.07.1980 Adrián Palomares 18.02.1976 Javier Ruiz de Larrínaga 02.11.1979 Ricardo Serrano 04.08.1978 Fernando Serrano 19.01.1979 Pablo Urtasun 29.03.1980
External links Former Sponsor's Site
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