Scooter Sensation Arrives In Airlie Beach

You might have spotted a new tourism experience coasting around Airlie Beach, the sun glittering off their vibrant chrome finish.

Local business ‘Scoot In Style’ launched this week, renting out its vespas armada of 30 chrome scooters from various Airlie Beach locations, their stylish colouring hoping to capitalise on the town’s party and paradise atmospheres.

Owner of Scoot In Style Mohammad ‘Mosey’ Nahas said the business plan was born when Whitsunday locals would ask him where he got his own chrome, turquoise scooter. The answer: The professional car wrapper had fixed it up himself. And that was when the idea hatched in the owner of ProPaintworks Airlie Beach’s mind.

“Everywhere I went on my scooter, there would be a person asking. I’d be driving down the middle of Airlie Beach and someone would shout out: Where’d you get that scooter from!” Mosey said.

“And I thought about it. When you go to Thailand or Bali, you have to get a scooter. In Airlie Beach, I thought, there’s all boat tours, everything on the water, but nothing here on the mainland. That’s where the idea came from.”

The custom, unique scooters were soon coined Scoot In Style, and Mosey fitted them with a chrome finish, white, crocodile skin seats, and whitewall tires. The target audience: anyone on a party of any variety, whether it be bucks, wedding, or birthday.

But Mosey said the major demographic Scoot In Style’s appealed to was tourists.

“Driving down Airlie Beach esplanade on coloured bikes, each with unique names like our Arabian Copper wrapped scooter nicknamed Chewbacca, or a silver bad boy with the title of Silver Surfer, there’s nothing like it,” Mosey said.

“We wanted something funny, fun, cool, and that makes you smile.

“There’s nothing like it in Airlie Beach. These 50cc, 60-kilometre-per-hour scooters that you can take around to Shute Harbour, get photos with, and just enjoy yourself. Anyone can drive them.

“You ride these scooters, people look at you; they point at you. And when you’re in a gang with others on their pink, green, white, silver, you’re having an absolute blast. You can’t help but smile and people are smiling at you when you ride past them.”

Mosey, who moved to the region alongside his partner, has lived and worked in Airlie Beach for eight years. And the car-wrapper by trade is celebrating the anniversary in his own style.

“We’re going to be everywhere in Airlie Beach – people have been calling me up like crazy already, asking where they can get them,” he said.

“We’re already thinking about where they can go next. Maybe Yeppoon or the Gold Coast; places that are a bit like Airlie Beach where you don’t need to be anywhere else.

“The bikes are perfect for that. Everything you need is at your fingertips and that’s it, you’re set once you’ve put that helmet on.”

Scoot In Style vespas are rentable from various locations across Airlie beach.

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Mohammad ‘Mosey’ Nahas has launched his new tourism business this week, sending his fleet of rentable chrome scooters out on Airlie Beach

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