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@plurabelle
Is it cycling on busy streets in London, or cycling at all that concerns you? 'Balancing' implies that you might not be comfortable on a bike at all. In which case, go to the park.
If it's just the London roads, it's normal to be nervous at first. I remember cycling in London for the first time, when I was 18, after growing up in the sticks and just cycling on country roads. I rode from my sister's in Finsbury Park to Covent Garden. It was shitting terrifying. I'd been told to 'ride as if no-one can see you', which is terrible advice; I was quivering in the gutter the whole way. But by the end of that journey I was pretty much ok. I suspect you have to just throw yourself in to the deep end; there's no getting around that first ride on your own, really.