Average cylindrical radial velocity as a function of radial distance in the plane R, for particles inside a sphere of radius 3 kpc, when the Sun is placed at (R,φ,z) = (8 kpc, −20°,0) and for the default bar model. The bin size is 0.5 kpc. Each panel corresponds to particles in a certain range of z. The black curve corresponds to the whole sample and the error bands are the statistical error on the mean. The other two curves represent the sample after the application of the RAVE selection function, without (red line) and with (blue line) error convolution. The quantities represented by the red and blue curves are averaged over 100 random subsamples of the simulation. The error bands correspond to the maximum error on the mean amongst the different samples. We only show the bins with errors smaller than 5 km s^-1 and more than 50 particles.