so, just as a general question, why do people cover up their license plates? i heard its to prevent other people from using the tag number? also to prevent people from tracking you down... either way it doesnt make sense, is someone really going to go through the trouble to track my bike down from the tags to where i live, passing 29,484 other bikes on the way..? even if they copy the plate to use for their own, i think it would be rather easy for the po-po to figure out that the red cbr1000 in cali is not the same as my black fz6 in md, even if it has the same plates....