No need even for airtags if there was a culture that made proper use of serial numbers. Like registering, checking, knowing which S/N you had when it comes to r

No need even for airtags if there was a culture that made proper use of serial numbers. Like registering, checking, knowing which S/N you had when it comes to registering a theft. Registering the theft in the first place, because currently that's usually seem as an attempt to get the bike back (and seen as futile), not as doing your share in preventing future bike theft, with no expectation of immediate upside. And all that not just about frame S/N, but also for those on components. And of course proper awareness that you definitely wouldn't want to buy used with manipulated S/N. (ps: I'm guilty of all of them, not the theft part but the lack of doing my parts in the serial numbers game)