A bikepacker who's been on the road for 8 years says he's turned his lifestyle into a business that covers his costs — here's how.

• Tristan Ridley is a "bikepacker" who has been traveling the world for eight years.
• In his first year on the road, he was living off less than $10 a day.
• Ridley turned his passion into a business, offering coaching services to aspiring bikepackers.

Tristan Ridley was days into his first long-distance trip when he met with a life-threatening incident.

He had just crossed a river by foot, and was pulling up his bicycle to the shore, when a group of men drinking asked him to stop. People he had talked to about Papua New Guinea had warned him not to stop in a situation like this.