First Crash - Are you not supposed to pedal around corners!?

Hi to you all, first post but couldn't not ask about this.
Crashed for the very first time on Sunday, well since I was a kid anyway. Can't quite way it up though....
Was plodding along and bettering by PB by about .5 of a mph. I was doing 20mph and aproaching a 90 degree right hand bend i've riden around many times. However, I was so into bettering my PB I continued to pedal around the corner whilst banked over! Doh!
Anyway, pedal hit the floor, i popped back upright, couldn't stop, hit the curb before landing on some grass trying to inpersante Klinsman himslef!!
Am i being stupid here, are you not suposed to pedal around corners?
Crashed for the very first time on Sunday, well since I was a kid anyway. Can't quite way it up though....
Was plodding along and bettering by PB by about .5 of a mph. I was doing 20mph and aproaching a 90 degree right hand bend i've riden around many times. However, I was so into bettering my PB I continued to pedal around the corner whilst banked over! Doh!
Anyway, pedal hit the floor, i popped back upright, couldn't stop, hit the curb before landing on some grass trying to inpersante Klinsman himslef!!
Am i being stupid here, are you not suposed to pedal around corners?
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Not sure what happens if you're riding fixed gear
Geoff
...depending on angle, apparently not.
Apparently you lean your body over and not so much the bike
www.velochallenge.org
There's no need to stop pedalling in a corner though. In my day at school it separated out them that could and them that couldn't, being able to lean over and still keep pedalling. Eee when aarr wurr a lad [drones on for several hours...]
Otherwise as Geoff_SS says, inside pedal up and glide elegantly around
The general rule is slow in fast out so usually you wouldn't put any power down until you start to straighten up, for fear of unbalancing the car/motorbike/bike.
Personally there's enough to think about when cornering so pedalling is the last thing I want to do (I learn't the hard way not to pedal round a sharp corner when I had my Raleigh Striker LOL)
Wores thing was the bike landing on my ear what thought was about 5 mins later!