Pear vs T

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I found it!!!

This is for Veronica, I found the picture I posted when we last had this conversation in Feb of 2007! Hooray! (I thought it was lost forever...)

Look closely at the two saddles. Both fit me. The one on the left has a cutout, a wide nose, a wide (pear or wedge, however you want to think of it) transition, and forward edges to the "cheeks" that curve as they go out, which further emphasize a gradual transition.

The one on the right has a narrow nose, a narrow abrupt transition, and even the forward edges of the "cheeks" are almost straight angled lines, further emphasizing an abrupt transition to the sit zone.

I know it's hard to get out of binary "black and white" thinking, but pear and T are gradations. One person's pear (in my case, the saddle on the left which chafed the ever lovin' heck out of me) is another person's T. (compare my Serfas Niva to the saddle Oakleaf posted. Can you see how my Serfas Niva is a T compared to that saddle?)