centre pull brakes
Most of the 1970s Dawes Galaxy bikes I see on the web have centre pull brakes which must have come in somewhere in the early 1970s. I have side pulls on my restoration project. I also had a Dawes Galaxy brand new in 1972 as an 18 birthday present for college and seem to remember it having side pull brakes. Needless to say they are useless!
Would a change to centre pull brakes be an opportunity to ditch the 27" wheels and adopt 700c wheels even though aesthetically it would look wrong? Would the hubs be a problem?