Oak Wheels: The Hand-Poured Urethane That Set the Standard

Oak Wheels began in Porto, Portugal, where Ricardo Lopes set out to make genuinely good urethane fingerboard wheels by hand. The V1 launched in 2009, and they're widely credited as the first really good urethane fingerboard wheels — a deceptively hard thing to get right at this scale.¹

Hand-made and obsessively iterated, Oak's wheels became a reference urethane for pro setups: the thing riders reach for when they want real grip and roll. The brand's small-batch, maker-led approach — one person, pouring wheels with, in their words, 'mucho feeling' — became a template for the boutique wheel makers that followed.¹

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Oak's whole story is one signature object, refined relentlessly.

• Hand-poured urethane wheels (V1, 2009): Oak's V1 launch in 2009 brought serious hand-poured urethane to fingerboarding and became a benchmark for feel — grip, roll, and consistency — that later wheel brands chased.¹

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Oak Wheels turned 'good urethane' from a wish into a standard. For a lot of riders, Oak is still the yardstick — and the proof that one maker in Porto could change what the whole scene expects from a wheel.¹