Originally Posted by gugie

+1

The 1974 Schwinn Paramount that was in the shop recently (from RiddleofSteel) had a brake bridge that was significantly further away from the dropout than the front fork dropout to fork crown hole. Since I was already doing work to replace the fork steerer, I cut out the old bridge and put a new one in to match the fork distance. This allowed the customer to use the same brake front and rear rather than some mismatched set. Finding a set of brakes with different reaches front and rear is like buying shoes for different size left and right. It's possible, but potentially expensive.