Kinematically constrained kick distributions for the young pulsars using the pulsar sample - including distance estimates - of Hobbs et al. (2005), considering the age ranges of τ_c ≤ 3 Myr (blue solid line, with a sample size N = 46) and τ_c ≤ 10 Myr (dotted light blue line, N = 83). The dashed grey line shows a Maxwellian fit to the τ_c < 3 Myr results (resulting in σ = 159(5) km/s). For comparison we also show the fit of Hobbs et al. (2005, dashed light red line, a Maxwellian with σ = 265 km/s) and the fiducial kick distribution based on the results for the pulsars with parallax estimates (dashed red line).