diff --git a/src/Pecee/Http/Request.php b/src/Pecee/Http/Request.php
index 61d8c3f..7f738fe 100644
--- a/src/Pecee/Http/Request.php
+++ b/src/Pecee/Http/Request.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class Request
         $this->setUri(new Uri($this->getHeader('unencoded-url', $this->getHeader('request-uri'))));
 
         $this->input = new Input($this);
-        $this->method = strtolower($this->input->get('_method', $this->getHeader('request-method'), 'post'));
+        $this->method = strtolower($this->input->get('_method', $this->getHeader('request-method')));
     }
 
     protected function parseHeaders()