I dunno about <1% exactly, but I'm for sure a minority, and that is definitely why it's hard to find stuff. I regularly have conversations in real life where people ask me why I don't just have a cheap used bike (given my hobbies and political beliefs, it makes sense on some level to ask) and I think I'm just salty after having to explain to people repeatedly that, no, I'm not a fancy-bike guy, I spent the least that I could.

Also, while cheap bikes are a great resource for working class people who fit them, like MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world and their need for an expensive bike to fit their disability, I think it's important to remind people about accessibility and that there are some of us that cannot access these resources. This is not to say that I think OP was being specifically discriminatory, only that if we don't speak up often about how society does not all bodies into account, people will tend to not think about it in general.