Quote Originally Posted by MartianDestiny View Post

Register your bike and the thief is just going to pull the "license plate" or sticker right off. My commuter bikes are registered with my college (because they, stupidly, have to be for "anti-theft" reasons), when I switched from undergrad to grad school it took me a whooping 30 seconds per bike to completely remove and replace the stickers...
My university has that option. I haven't, simply because the campus is easily walkable. I don't park my bike outside--it lives in my room where there's relatively little chance of it getting stolen. The "registration" is basically a "hello, my name is" sticker with a number on it. Not worth the paper it's printed on to deter theft.