So what problem was the brinelling causing you? Were you actually able to feel it while riding the bike? I haven't looked at my schwinn, but my raleigh and previous bikes had marks on the headset races that looked like brineling, but were probably just slight surface corrosion on the part of the race the bearing wasn't touching. I think I only found binelling for real on one headset ever, and it wasn't anything that was noticeable while riding.