diff --git a/laravel/routing/route.php b/laravel/routing/route.php
index ddabf660..19267431 100644
--- a/laravel/routing/route.php
+++ b/laravel/routing/route.php
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class Route {
 	 */
 	protected static function extract($segment)
 	{
-		$uri = substr($segment, strpos($segment, ' ') + 1);
+		$uri = substr($segment, strpos($segment, ' '));
 
 		return ($uri !== '/') ? trim($uri, '/') : $uri;
 	}
diff --git a/tests/cases/laravel/route.test.php b/tests/cases/laravel/route.test.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..12e1af9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cases/laravel/route.test.php
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+
+class RouteTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
+
+	/**
+	 * Destroy the testing environment.
+	 */
+	public function tearDown()
+	{
+		Request::$route = null;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Tests the Route::handles method.
+	 *
+	 * @group laravel
+	 */
+	public function testHandlesReturnsTrueWhenRouteHandlesTheGivenURI()
+	{
+		$route = new Laravel\Routing\Route('GET /', array('handles' => array('foo/bar')));
+
+		$this->assertTrue($route->handles('foo/bar'));
+	}
+
+}
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