Kit not sure about your rocky or sandy parking lot analogy, it would seem to me that the CT is much better in those situations. For me it's rock solid compared to an MT. I certainly understand the sloped problem although it's never caused me a problem
Yes Sir it is. Most of the time. Especially on gravel roads. You can fly down a gravel road with a CT. Let er rip.
What I speak of is that slow speed shuffle, like you pull into an off road parking lot that is sloped, has little room and limited ways to park. So you get into the turn the bike around thing. There are rocks, sand, gravel and so on.
Most would not try some of the things I will do anyway. In calyfornia in one state park I really wanted to hike the trail, the parking lot was terrible.
So I went out to the main road, parked, picked up some large rocks, put them in the passenger seat, went back to the parking area, threw the rocks onto the ground and stacked two of them up. So I could get the side stand down, and the bike not fall over. That is how sloped the parking lot was. I guess I could have dug a hole on the high side too. Lol!
On really rough stuff, the CT will walk around a lot. At slow speeds such as the both feet down , I am about to fall over here stuff.
If I am running and can keep enough speed to make a u turn , not a big deal. It is that slowllllsssss stuff that walks the walk.