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there is a technique of riding that'll also help
to try to learn to lean body weight off the bike and into the corner - leaving the bike as vertical as possible - a little like motorbike riders do. this will give you higher cornering speeds than normal body-above-bike cornering without pedal strike - and the habit will enable you to pedal through corners you'd normally coast on on a freewheel equipped bike (maybe you'll see riders doing this in TTs or criteriums on tight up hill corners where to stop pedaling would be to lose speed un- necessarily - ).
it's a technique also used by trikes due to their non-leaning nature so this give and exaggerated idea of what i'm talking about...:
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i had one of these with fixed hub as an option - so you can do this whilst pedaling...