I was a plate backer "purist" until I got a new bike. I fought the urge to put a backer on it for a few months but... Then I thought about it this way... If you complete the IBR, you will earn an IBR plate backer, probably the most coveted and respected one there is. Then, later on, you get a new bike... You could theoretically enter the drawing for every IBR held for the rest of your life and not get picked to even have the chance of your new bike "earning" an IBR backer so... Would you not just put the IBR backer on the new bike? I put a new backer on my new bike and a few months later, it earned it in earnest on the Battlefield 1000. Even if I never rode another ride, I earned those backers,and my bike wears them proudly.