Ah Roper – YGM.
Yes – you should be defended as people should know Roper is one heck of a fit and fast rider!
My suggested route is cunning on a number of levels. Mr Agreeable has room for 3 bikes. If we park near that roundabout with the multicoloured trees, if time is short for you, you could do just Sierra de la Luna in 3 hours and head down the Tarifa road back to your car, while we do Getares.
However, the Getares loop will be pretty much down hill down the technical descent, and then round, so maybe 4 hours of riding in all? Err on the side of caution though, as we will need maybe half an hour for lunch, and another half an hour of photo taking time, and it’s say 5 hours in all. I was also thinking that if we park at the industrial estate, it gives us a 20 minute road ride to warm up before the start of the climb at Algecieras prison.
And just to reiterate what I said in my email, my suggestion has a lot of variery – climbing, big views of Gibraltar, altitude, the singletrack descent (assuming we find JSPs route), the Getares descent, and the views of Africa at the end.