diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eca4c748..bc764804 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ URI.js is published under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/m
 
 ### `[dev-version]` (master branch) ###
 
+* fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly resolve `/.//` to `/` - ([Issue #97](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/97))
 * fixing [`path()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname) to return empty string if there is no path - ([Issue #82](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/82))
 * fixing crashing of `URI.decodeQuery()` on malformed input - now returns original undecoded data - ([Issue #87](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/87), [Issue #92](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/92))
 * fixing build tool - ([Issue #83](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/83))
diff --git a/src/URI.js b/src/URI.js
index edd7ed3c..e4c26334 100644
--- a/src/URI.js
+++ b/src/URI.js
@@ -1576,8 +1576,12 @@ p.normalizePath = function(build) {
         _was_relative = true;
         _path = '/' + _path;
     }
+
     // resolve simples
-    _path = _path.replace(/(\/(\.\/)+)|\/{2,}/g, '/');
+    _path = _path
+        .replace(/(\/(\.\/)+)/g, '/')
+        .replace(/\/{2,}/g, '/');
+
     // resolve parents
     while (true) {
         _parent = _path.indexOf('/../');
@@ -1596,6 +1600,7 @@ p.normalizePath = function(build) {
         }
         _path = _path.substring(0, _pos) + _path.substring(_parent + 3);
     }
+
     // revert to relative
     if (_was_relative && this.is('relative')) {
         _path = _path.substring(1);
diff --git a/test/test.js b/test/test.js
index f39582c3..336f4f7a 100644
--- a/test/test.js
+++ b/test/test.js
@@ -904,6 +904,9 @@ test("normalizePath", function() {
 
     u.path('./foo/woo/../bar/baz.html').normalizePath();
     equal(u.path(), '/foo/bar/baz.html', "URL: dot-relative parent");
+    
+    u.path('/.//').normalizePath();
+    equal(u.path(), '/', "root");
 
     // encoding
     u._parts.path = '/~userhome/@mine;is %2F and/';