About those "electrical thingies" I mentioned: buy rectifier, CDI (or it is TCI on YBR?), ignition coil, starter relays, etc. and stuck them somewhere under the seat. Those you can not find easy on all of those "-stans" on your itinerary. Also, I think that some voltmeter (or some multi functional... "thingy") would be nice addition for instant observation of electrical system.
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What compression should this engine have? Google says that healthy engine should have above 120psi
Those 120 psi are 8 Bar and change - too low. As "Humanbeing" wrote, 10,5-11 Bar is bottom line, but you can use "old school" trick to check worn of the cylinder/rings - do first measuring by the book, and after that, squirt some oil (lets say - 20 cc) through spark plug hole into cylinder, hit the engine start button for a sec or two and after that do another compression measuring. If these two results are significantly different (one Bar, for example), then... things are not ideally good.
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Are there any downsides of having a big cooler that Im not aware of?
Of which you aware of?

IMO, whatever you decide to do, you should use oil cooler hoses with the same type of fittings on both ends. Why? If cooler start to leak or one of the hoses bursts, you can simply make bypass with the good hose and cut off rest of the oil cooling system.