Filmmaker Jonny Campbell rides through the Scottish Highlands
‘Slowest Known Time’ is a 30-minute feature film by director Jonny Campbell that traces his ride on the 337-kilometre Badger Divide route through the Scottish Highlands with two close friends. The result is a quiet film that is free of contrived drama and tells the simple story of a week well lived.
Filmmaker Jonny Campbell's film ‘Slowest Known Time’ proves that it doesn't take much to experience a real adventure on your doorstep. At a time when ultracycling is displacing the very essence of bikepacking and gravel is being celebrated at world tour level, the film shows the beauty of simplicity without the need for the best and most expensive equipment. Just two friends, two bikes and the vastness of Scotland.
Campbell's bikepacking adventure starts in Inverness in the far north of Scotland and heads south, ending in Glasgow. The two friends covered the distance of 337 kilometres in under eight days. ‘It was important to me not to construct anything, but to convey the experience of the journey as authentically as possible,’ says Campbell about his film. Well, there is nothing more to add…