Originally Posted by
Milton Keynes
The thing is that if you write down your serial number, and give that number to the police officer making the report after your bike is stolen, they will enter the serial number into NCIC and any agency across the country will be able to run the number and find that it was stolen. Provided, of course, the bike is recovered within a year because I think they get kicked out after that time.
Seems like a much larger amount of effort than they'd care to spend.